<p>Hi all, I took the SAT twice without prep, and didn’t get such great scores. However, for reasons I really cannot explain, my dad sent these scores to all the colleges I want to apply for. If I take a prep course, and get close to 800 in pretty much all sections on the third try, will that be a dead giveaway that I took a prep course, and will that open up a nice big weakness for the officers to see? I understand colleges like Virginia Tech superscore, but surely they will take my all-of-a-sudden high scores with a grain of salt?</p>
<p>How bad were they? I’m asking this because going from not great scores (whatever that is in this case) to almost 800s is not easy.</p>
<p>I guess if you can bring all scores up to mid-700’s and correlated level of GPA, you should be fine. But that’s just my opinion. :D</p>
<p>In his earlier posts, he said…
“That’s not at all what I’m asking. I did a good bit of studying for the first one, and got 2040” </p>
<p>So going from a 2040 to high 700’s won’t look “bad” at all, it will show you actually put in effort to improve your score. I don’t think you will get penalized for getting a better test score.</p>
<p>thanks, guys. ha, everyone seems to use the word “screw” rather often when worrying about admissions, hence the fact that all of the “related threads” that came up had the word screw in it. Anyway, do you think i’d be better served pulling back one of those scores (both were around 2040), or will colleges actually be impressed that i got a higher score rather than just be a p ussy like half the people i know and send only their one very best score?</p>
<p>They shouldn’t care.</p>
<p>ya they really wont care at all. dont stress about it</p>