Confused about sat stuff...

Lanayru
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:33:39 +0000

Ok, I’m reading it right off the table.
HIGHEST SECTION V1 means University will consider your other scores as part of the decision-making process. V2 Universities will not peek at your other scores and therefore wants you to submit any scores since lower scores get scrapped anyways. Thus, sending your 800-800-600 and 600-600-800 to a V1 is BAD (V1 university will point at the 600s and say “whats up with that”), but a V2 will only see the 2400.

And, hey, the same logic applies to V1 and V2 of single highest date. For example, say you tested in October and got 1550, then again in March and got 2200. V1 will see the 1550 (and maybe view you negatively) and V2 will not.

To sum it up, you should like highest section Universities, especially V2 Universities if you got some embarrassing (well, maybe less extreme but you get the point ;)) scores.