<p>I’m a junior in high school. The colleges I am looking at are: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Rice, UPenn, and UT Austin. I took the SAT last Saturday and did not do as well as I expected (2200+). Instead, I think I scored around a 2150 or so. My final goal is to score 2300+. Will it look bad for Harvard or any of these other schools, if my first test score is in the 2100s, and then my final one is a 2300? Will the admissions committees ignore the lower score?</p>
<p>They mostly just look a your highest scores, and srsly 2100’s is not bad (especially if your gpa is up there)</p>
<p>If you improve by that much, it would look great! Good luck! =)</p>
<p>Aaaaand calm down. 2100 (or 2150 or whatever) is amazing for your first time taking it. They don’t care if you only achieved the 96th (the horror!) percentile your first time around. They probably don’t even care that much once your reach that level. You’ll be fine. I promise.</p>
<p>Take the ACT if you’re so worried.</p>
<p>By the way, you don’t need 2300+ to get into Harvard and all those other schools you mentioned. Most of my friends accepted to/attending Ivies (Harvard included) didn’t score 2300+. I know people who scored in the 2100s who are attending Harvard (and are ordinary high-achievers, not like they cured cancer to make up for a low SAT score or something). I know someone who was accepted to Harvard as a middle class Asian student with a sub2000 score. Do your best, shine in class, and you’ll be fine. The person with a 2100 that I know at Harvard took the SAT 5 times. He still got in…clearly didn’t matter</p>
<p>I was accepted with a 2190, so don’t worry about it too much!</p>