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It is indeed possible for Harvard to consider only the best SAT scores (and indeed, many colleges claim to do so, not just Harvard).
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The question at issue was not whether Harvard uses the highest scores (like almost all colleges, it states that it does) but whether an applicant is guaranteed that the lowest scores may as well have never existed.
That is, will an application, no matter the information on the SAT score report or other data elsewhere in the application, always be treated identically to the same application but with the SAT history replaced by a single SAT score equal to the "superscore" of the report?
There are few if any schools that have claimed to pre-empt consideration of the lower scores. For Harvard in particular it would certainly be out of character. They are quite interested in exceptionally high SAT scores, for example, as internal studies show those to be correlated with magna and summa degrees. There is quite a difference between getting a 2350 on the SAT in one sitting in the second year of high school, and scratching and clawing one's way upward from a 2050 to a superscored (not single sittingg) 2350 over five tests and two years. I assume admissions is aware of that.