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Dupes: Because the exam is NOT easy to score well on without a significant time commitment. Unless you are naturally gifted(very few) the amount of studying it would take to get an SAT score that would "wow" the Adcom (I'd say 2200 or higher depending on the school) would be overwhelming.
Yes, you can improve your score by a couple hundred points with a little more effort and studying, I even did so myself, but the minimal improvement on an exam for HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS is not worth it imo.
Bait & Switch has got it right. Your time is much better spent writing compelling essays and developing great relationships with your professors.
Many of the top schools I applied to, or was considering, flat-out told me that retaking the exam was unnecessary, I was too boneheaded to listen however.
In all honesty, the SAT should be done away with for all students, its stated goals are not accomplished by the exam now, nor have they been for a very long time. It might have some correlation to how well a high school student might do in college, but it has no correlation for a current college student, especially when you have REAL college grades to look at. Adcoms are not stupid and they realize this.
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