If you really want to go to HYPSM or similar, the “Don’t retake the SAT if it’s above 2200” is horrible advice unless you’re recruited for athletics. This thread is much better for that: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/937782-advice-elite-college-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/937782-advice-elite-college-admissions.html</a> OP’s advice is great for the prospective student at say, (hard to choose a college without offending anybody)…perhaps Berkeley or UVA or Johns Hopkins or even maybe Duke or Chicago or Cornell. But not the very super-most top ones.