GC Letter for SAT scores?

wjb
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:27:42 +0000

Of course, calmom, the GC should be talking about something personal to the kid. But I think that maybe, just maybe, the fact that on the first time at bat a particular kid self-studied for 3 or 4 hours, took the SAT or ACT, and earned a 2400 or a 36, is a noteworthy personal accomplishment in and of itself, one worth mentioning along with other accomplishments.

Also, admission committees typically do NOT know about multiple sittings. In general, at the clerical level folks sift through subscores from multiple sittings to cherry-pick the student’s highest subscores. The committee receives the redacted version of a kid’s scores. And the committee doesn’t know whether a student took the SAT once or five times. Perhaps they don’t care. But like Counting Down, I’d love to hear from one of our resident admissions reps.