How is superscoring done at top tier colleges?

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<p>In other words, would a 600,800,800 and a 800,600,600 be the same as a single-sitting triple 800? Do they use computers to superscore, or do adcoms do them manually?
Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>I don’t see what the difference would be between a computer superscoring and a human superscoring. But logically speaking, I would think a 2400 in one sitting would be slightly more impressive than a superscored 2400, but probably not enough of a difference to make or break an application.</p>

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<p>Well, I would think the admissions officers do them manually. Let’s take an example:</p>

<p>Test 1: 600 CR; 800 M; 800 W
Test 2: 800 CR; 600 M; 600 W
Test 3: 500 CR; 500 M; 500 W</p>

<p>When a college says they “superscore,” the superscore they calculate will be a 2400. However, the College Board will send all the scores from the tests that contribute to the superscore. In this case, you would want to send the 800 CR from Test 2 and the 800 M and 800 W from Test 1 to the school; to do so, though, you would have to send the 600 M/600 W from Test 2 and the 600 CR from Test 1.</p>

<p>So, it’s up to the admissions officers themselves to ignore those 600’s and only go off of the 2400 superscore. Do note that they won’t see any of the 500’s from Test 3 since none of the 500’s contributes to the overall superscore.</p>

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<p>Well, so the question becomes, do the admissions officers ignore those 600’s?
and some schools that don’t use scorechoice(i.e. Yale) will see the 500’s I believe.</p>

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<p>“Top tier colleges,” like any other schools, would be confused if they saw scores that fluctuated that wildly. Ask yourself something: is this even a realistic scenario? A person isn’t going to suddenly score a 600 on a section that he/she aced on an earlier test date. Perhaps a score could decline by 50 or 80 points… but even that’s unlikely.</p>

<p>If you had the following scores, </p>

<p>800,750,670; 720,740,800 </p>

<p>then admissions officers would just take the superscore. End of story. They know that everyone has a performance range and consistent improvement isn’t possible once you hit a certain point.</p>

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<p>If a school has a superscore policy, they (officially) take the superscore, no matter how low the ignored subscores would be.</p>

<p>Of course, if the scores were 800-200-200/200-800-200/200-200-800, a red flag or two (or three) may go off.</p>

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<p>Does harvard/mit/Stanford take superscores into consideration?</p>

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<p>Can someone pls respond?</p>

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<p>I know MIT does superscoring</p>

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<p>thanks asdasd77. How about Harvard and stanford</p>

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<p>Stanford does superscore, it’s on their site: [Testing</a> : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Standardized Testing : Stanford University) : </p>

<p>Superscoring Test Results</p>

<pre><code>For the SAT, we will focus on the highest individual Critical Reading, Math and Writing scores from all test sittings.
For the ACT, we will focus on the highest Composite and the highest Combined English/Writing scores from all test sittings. We will also consider individual subscores.
</code></pre>

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<p>Not sure about Harvard–seems like it’s unclear. Here’s a CC thread on it: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1356262-should-i-take-sat-again-harvards-super-score-policy.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1356262-should-i-take-sat-again-harvards-super-score-policy.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;