NUMBER of SAT'S OK TO TAKE?

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<p>I don’t think it really matters. </p>

<p>I can only take it 2 more times, and one of them has to be dedicated to the SATs and the other is to SAT IIs, so I won’t have a problem with that.</p>

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<p>Well doesnt it matter if you only send your scores to a school? Because before you take it dont you have to put the colleges you want the score sent to? But if you take it and dont put any colleges, then they wouldnt be able to see it. Right???</p>

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<p>RedSox, when you send your scores to colleges, all the SATs you’ve taken will be sent</p>

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<p>3 times is the max.</p>

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<p>The “average of the scores if you take it 4 times or more” was true for the OLD SAT. There is no evidence, that I know of, to indicate that schools still maintain this policy.</p>

<p>You should only take the test 4 or more times if you have good reason, honestly it probably won’t affect your app one way or the other, but why take the chance that it does? If you need to take that chance then prep hard and focus, if not walk away from the SAT. Your grades and Ltrs of Rec are very important also, so focus on those instead.</p>

<p>And someone get Lohan out of the hospital…</p>

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<p>“I’d go with 3. After that, they start averaging your scores and they probably don’t enjoy that very much.”</p>

<p>This is absolute nonsense. It isn’t is the college’s best interest to average your scores. Colleges WANT their students to have the highest scores because it affects their rankings!! They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they averaged scores, which resulted in lower scores. Many schools now even “super score” so that their stats look better (take subscores from different sittings).</p>

<p>Another reason a college wouldn’t do it is because a person may have taken the tests over a few years period – say as a soph, junior & senior, so of course, the soph and junior scores would be lower and shouldn’t be averaged in. The SAT is traditionally a senior test; therefore, if a person took the test 3 times as a senior MAYBE colleges wouldn’t like it.</p>

<p>I really wish that people wouldn’t write posts as if they are stating verified facts, when they are really only guessing. Many of the above posts are pure guesses.</p>