Do Admission Officials SEE All SAT Scores?

Sally_Rubenstone
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:56:40 +0000

Admission officials won’t pay much attention to the scores you earned the day you were sick … and some may not see them at all. So don’t worry. If the scores were WAY worse (e.g., in the neighborhood of 1500), they might raise a flag, but certainly not in this case.

But a word to ALL students: I often hear, “I didn’t do well on such-and-such a test date because I was really sick …”

I suggest that, if you’re sick, stay home! I realize that sometimes you may pop up in the morning feeling kind of crummy, but you ply yourself with Motrin or Sudafed and hope for the best … then you only get worse as the day goes on (and the test-stress doesn’t help).

But for those of you who are practically crawling to the test site, it’s not worth it!