<p>Look at it this way: schools have a self-interest in considering only your top score (or your superscore, if that’s what they use). They’re in a competitive market, too, competing for the best students, as well as competing for high rankings in US News, in part because that helps them attract the best students, the best faculty, alumni contributions, etc, all of which in turn feeds right back into their US News ranking Consequently, they have their eye on their 25th and 75th percentile SAT medians. If your top SAT score (or superscore) puts you in the top quartile of their entering class, they’ll very likely be interested (provided your grades/class rank are OK) because you only help them. If you’re in the middle 50%, they may be interested; you don’t help with their 75th percentile score, but you may help pull up their 25th. If you’re below their 25th, you’re not helping them, so they’re going to need some other very strong reasons to be interested.</p>
<p>Bottom line, though, they have no reason to consider any SAT score other than your highest (or superscore). They all say they don’t care about any other scores, and I’m inclined to believe them.</p>