Essays are overrated?

schitz
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:08:31 +0000

I don’t know whether college students can expect improvements in SAT scores without study. I’d guess that your scores might go down, actually, at least in the math section. Most of the math is 9th and 10th grade math (at least it was for me), so by senior year, most of the math concepts on the test were rusty for me. I’d guess it would be even worse for college math, because that’s theory math versus practical math (depends on the courses you’ve taken). So I would only consider retaking if you have the time to spend on going through several practice tests and a prep book, because otherwise your score might stay the same or be lower. This is my guess for the math section - reading/writing might go up, but it’s still worth taking a practice test to get back into the SAT-format.

And as fizix said, look at the SAT range, but it never hurts to be a more solid applicant by retaking the test (which shows initiative as well, I would think, but I have no clue whether schools would see it that way…).