How do UC admission officers view

daveeed
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:30:17 +0000

an applicant who has taken the SAT 4 times?

I’ve always improved: 136 Soph. PSAT; 169 Junior PSAT; 1810 Dec; January I got a 1960.

I feel like I can reach at least 2100+ if I take it in October of my senior year (I am a junior this year) after studying consistently over the summer.

At the same time, I was planning on taking a third and final SAT this May. But then I realized how much I can improve over the summer.
Should I take both the May and Oct. SAT? Or would that just hurt me?

I am probably applying all UC’s and to other schools in CA: LMU, USC, Santa Clara. My GPA is not outstanding, so I feel like maximizing my opportunities by taking the SAT 2 more times and improving on each try would be beneficial to my app.

Do you have any idea on how UC adcoms, more specifically from UCLA and Cal, view applicants who take the SAT 4 times? Do they think they try too hard? Or is that mindset only for applicants who have taken the SAT more than once when they already scored high?

Thanks for reading.