<p>oh well,
i was just freaking out, because my friends told me that colleges probably assume that I didn’t care and intentionally screwed up, and that good colleges wouldn’t accept me because of that!
i guess my friends are just dumb… lol
thanks</p>
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<p>In a word, no. So far there is no credible indication that any selective institution censors credentials from the eyes of its admissions personnel. Such claims have been made in print and online, but found to be false later (notably, the claim that MIT has a computerized process that prevents readers of the application from seeing the non-highest SAT scores). There is intern data processing parallel to, but apparently not in replacement of, the consideration of the underlying files by those who decide admissions.</p>
<p>while this doesn’t speak to the question of whether an admissions person at MIT will see the original score report, it does put forth MIT’s stated policy on re-takes of the SAT:</p>
<p>“In such circumstances, we will consider scores from each section of both the older and newer versions of the tests and use the highest score achieved in each section for our evaluation. This is also the case if you have taken the SAT Reasoning Test or ACT Plus Writing more than once. Since reporting multiple scores will not hurt you, we recommend that when you register to take tests, you ask for all of your scores to be reported to MIT.”</p>
<p>[ <a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/standardized_test_requirements/index.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/standardized_test_requirements/index.shtml</a> ]</p>
<p>note that the mit web site explicitly states that “reporting multiple scores will not hurt you,” as opposed to saying, “reporting less than x scores will not hurt you, but if you report x or more we’ll think you’re test-obsessed.”</p>
<p>also, to make this whole process even more mysterious, check out the picture in this blog post by an mit admissions guy:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/my_first_full_reading_day.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/my_first_full_reading_day.shtml</a></p>
<p>don’t you wish you could make out what’s written on those pages? :)</p>
<p>One needs to apply some common sense in parsing those policy statements.</p>
<p>The same MIT admissions guy was questioned about this on CC (i.e. whether their highest scores policy is the end of the story, so that a multi-SAT score report is always treated identically to the equivalent one-shot superscore). From his answer — that in at least some circumstances he would be prompted to look into the rest of the application to see how the score report fits in with everything else — it is clear that the answer is NO. A score report is, at least potentially, subject to different treatment than its one-sitting superscore. </p>
<p>MIT is one of the most specific universities in its statements that it “doesn’t hurt” to have multiple scores. More so than Harvard and far more so than Princeton. That even MIT’s statement does not indicate complete equivalence of the superscore with the whole SAT-I report, confirms what should have been clear from the beginning: that these policy statements merely say that there is no policy of systematically penalizing retakes (by subtracting points from the retest scores, or averaging the scores, or other method that is mathematically distinguishable from superscoring). It does not mean that no disadvantage can ever accrue from different treatment of the multi-SAT score report and its one-sitting super equivalent.</p>
<p>Anyone in this thread who said he needs to worry, or good luck, or anything is a complete and utter fool. They (CollegeBoard) doesn’t care that much. Use some common sense. There are so many test takers why would they nitpick over one testaker who could have made a mistake on bubbling or just didn’t care about the Math section on the retake. If they investigated every time someone didn’t give a **** for a particular section then they would be going a ton of investigating. Who do you think the CB is, the FBI? they care but they do not care that much.</p>
<p>I thought most CCer’s had common sense/ logic. Guess not.</p>
<p>Not only does the College Board not worry about such things, the colleges that are members of the College Board mostly don’t either. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1</a></p>
<p><a href=“%5Bb%5Dtokenadult%5B/b%5D%20wrote:”>quote</a> Not only does the College Board not worry about such things, the colleges that are members of the College Board mostly don’t either. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...38&postcount=1[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...38&postcount=1</a>
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<p>I assume that is the same link you have spammed to CC some 40 times in the past couple of months, i.e. your failed attempt to get new information from the Harvard admissions office. Is there some reason why instead of answering the criticisms that were posted you ignore them and continue the spam campaign?</p>
<p>dont cancel, 780 is really strong so chances are that you didnt do that bad on it this time. anything in the 600s wont look too wierd.</p>
<p>Moreover, at this time of year there is plenty of time to ask college admission officers what the usual policy is at their colleges.</p>
<p>How do you explain that a cramp compromised your math score, but your CR was great?</p>