<p>For example is it better to have a 710, 720, and 730 for a 2150 instead of something like 800, 670, 680? Or 750, 750, 750 for a 2250 instead of a 800,700, 750?</p>
<p>Colleges look at individual scores. 2200 by way of 730-730-740 is oftentimes better than 2200 by way of 800-800-600.</p>
<p>According to Grammatix, however, most colleges adopt the “superscore” policy</p>
<p>That’s irrelevant to the question. “Superscore” simply means that colleges consider the highest score from each section.</p>
<p>That’s a pretty silly question when you think of it. Colleges have 5k+applicants every year depending on school and well as you can tell from the way Collegeboard reports the scores, it’s not composite but single so it would be sent in single-form scores. I doubt colleges admission officers manually add up each applicant’s score not to mention there’s no huge benefit from doing that. So for you answer yes they look at individual scores and while I can’t attest to a 800/800/600 being better than a 740 750 710, since some colleges don’t look at Writing, i will say that a balanced score of 750x3 will usually be better than a 800 800 650</p>