<p>I realize that most people suggest that one should only take the SAT twice. I have taken the SAT three times (end of soph, march of junior, june of junior) and was wondering just how significantly this will diminish my already slim chances at Cornell or UPenn (both schools that do not accept ScoreChoice)? I am really regretting taking the test my soph. year because I only took it to become acquainted with the test and did not give an honest effort (no studying, little sleep, poor breakfast and ,frankly, just treated it as any other day).</p>
<p>I’d say 3 is the right number of times unless you reach your goal before then (or your score is still super-horrible).</p>
<p>A lot of schools allow score choice though, so it wouldn’t matter how many times you take it. I’m pretty sure Brown and MIT both allow score choice, so yes, some selective schools take score choice too.</p>
<p>Hey, i have another quesiton. What if you want to apply to schools that don’t use score choice such as U penn and Columbia and you got a low score the first time, say, 1950, will your chances be adversely affected even though you improve a lot the second time, say, to 2250?</p>
<p>Not really.</p>
<p>just pure opinion but i’d think the college would see that as more of a reason to pick you (ok maybe not more, but still). They see you made a rather large score improvement and will see you as a hard worker, which is probably the type of people they want at their school.</p>
<p>^ Yes, that’s true. Dartmouth, which doesn’t allow Score choice, has said before that improvements in SAT scores look good to admissions.</p>
<p>Wow… at first I thought they might take the average of your scores or just think the students who retake are not as able as those who only take once…</p>
<p>btw, for MIT and Harvard, even though they use score choice, if you send them all your scores, is it true that they only consider your superscore?</p>