<p>don’t sweat it. at almost every school, the highest section scores are what count. they don’t care what order you made the scores in. in fact, at the schools whose admissions processes i know about, the decision-makers won’t even see the order of the scores, or how many times you took the test. they’ll get a pre-digested report with the GPA the school is using and the test score the school is using, and they won’t know what your other scores were.</p>
<p>what a lot of people forget is that the average decision is made very quickly. (crunch the numbers on your own.) the admissions people go through a lot of applications in a day, and they don’t have time to psycho-analyze the scoring trends of every applicant, particularly when there are more direct indicators of your personality right in front of them (personal statement, lor, resume, attachments, et cetera).</p>