Any advantage to taking early SATs?

stemit
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:56:37 +0000

Even schools which require all scores to be submitted claim to look at only the best scores - even superscoring some. For the D1 schools (D3s don’t have NLIs or Likely Letters), a recruited athlete only has to clear the bar (e.g., get whatever score that school requires of its athletes), and are not competing with the general application population. The coach will be able to tell you where the bar rests.

For D3s, search the threads - it seems that D3 recruiting at top academic schools (e.g., Haverford) is fraught with much more uncertainty to the extent that the athletes are competing with the general application population.

My D - a hookless non-athlete - took the ACT as a soph. The result served as a baseline for her; ironically, she took it two more times and only increased her score one point. The schools did not hold the multiple testing against her. And, if it was not held against an applicant the schools are looking for a reason to reject, I don’t believe it would work to the detriment of an appicant a school is looking for a reason to admit.