<p>WOW is right! Great test scores everyone!!</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay: my S first SAT score was 2080 (Jan. 2011), sadly to say this year’s score 2140. He was so sad this early morning after he saw his score. His PSAT in Oct was 225. We thought he should get 2300+.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who are pleased with their SAT scores! D is pushing towards her first attempt in March. I must admit I’m a little jealous of all of you who have one and doners. It must feel great for your kids to be finished with that part of their preparation for application season. I think my D will probably need more than one attempt at it, but you never know…maybe she will be sitting pretty soon as well. Already there with the GPA and class rank, just need that last piece of the puzzle.:)</p>
<p>D is making her first attempt in March also and I expect she’ll need more than one attempt though I hope for her sake she’s happy with her first attempt so she’ll be motivated if she wants to make more attempts.</p>
<p>We were sick when we were set to get the mock-ACT results so I need to figure out how to get those results so we know roughly how she’d fare on the ACT as well!</p>
<p>Pigmom, those scores are nothing to be sad about…though I do understand the feeling of not reaching your goals. We certainly didn’t, and now I’ve broken my personal rule about NEVER going on CC during the workday just because it’s on my mind today. Mustn’t do this again!!! All will work out.</p>
<p>Funny…S13 scored a 198 on his PSAT (1st SAT was a 2040) and a 32 on his mock ACT (Scored a 34 across the board until he got to the Science portion). I have always heard that some kids tend to fair better on one test over another.</p>
<p>His CC told him that he needs at LEAST a 32-33 to go along with his 4.83 GPA to even think of getting into the schools on his list. I am pretty sure that his Spring Break will be spent either on the Track or studying for the April 14th ACT.</p>
<p>Thanks for the congrats! Naturally, now ds wants to take it again to try to do even better, but I think I can get him to nix that notion. I talked to his GC, and she said his score is good enough. I hope he’ll listen to her if not me. :)</p>
<p>pigmom, what is his superscore? Take the higher sitting of each of the three sections. Could that get him over 2200?</p>
<p>Congrats on the great SAT scores! YDS, my D’s first reaction when she saw her Oct SAT scores was to ask if she should retake to get her math score higher. I convinced her to just take the ACT in Dec, so she is done with those tests now.</p>
<p>Yes, DrGoogle, if you see my post #4055, I said the SAT II list was a few years old and one should check with the individual schools’ websites to verify.</p>
<p>mamabear, sorry, I finally saw that post.
D2 had great scores, I think she is done with testing. She can certainly improve but for certain schools it might look obsessive.
Arm with her SAT information, I now can analyze our high school’s naviance.</p>
<p>Have fun, DrG. I was on there tonight looking at some new feature that I don’t really get – SuperCollegeMatch or something?</p>
<p>There are some things on Naviance that make no sense. My S’s Super College Match (or something) put Mt. Holyoke on his list, and I couldn’t figure out how to set it to remove women’s colleges! But the scattergrams are helpful. I was just on the College Board list about super scoring, trying to get my head around it. It says that some schools just want all scores. So this means (sorry to be dense), they don’t super score and my son’s less than stellar performance on the Jan SAT will essentially count (for those schools)?</p>
<p>NEA, I’d say not necessarily. They may still superscore among the sittings but just want to see all of the sittings. Anyone else agree with that? Rob? Shilly? Tx? Remember, superscoring helps the college, too. It gets to report the higher numbers of its applicants when it picks and chooses.</p>
<p>The more I think about it the more I REALLY want ds to not retest.</p>
<p>MomofNEA, I’m looking at the scattegrams, I don’t understand the rest.
YDS, for some colleges like MIT and Penn, I don’t think it’s a good idea to retest.
Here is a quote from Penn.
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<p>DrG, so that confirms what I said to NEA, right? They’re still superscoring but want to see what it took to get to that score.</p>
<p>Yes, that is how I interpret colleges mean by superscoring, but only by schools that don’t allow scores choice.</p>
<p>I know for the UC’s they want to see all scores and then they super score.</p>
<p>Interesting. Thanks for the insights. It’s why I can’t break this minor addiction! So a middling score that turns into a good score (one hopes) could be seen as a sign that the kid has the drive to work hard and do better. The question is why does the ad comm want that kid over the one who has solid good scores, all other things being equal?</p>
<p>Well from what I’ve read, schools main motives for super scoring is to improve their own ratings. It seems to me like then schools that want to see the whole testing record are taking advantage of being able to see who gets higher scores more quickly but also being able to advertise how high their average scores are. Maybe that’s just me.</p>
<p>Post #4110. The UCs take the best single sitting.</p>
<p>^^Ooops, Dr. Google you are absolutely right the UC’s take your best score from one sitting. I am not sure where I got that the UC’s superscored. I must have gotten my campus visits confused.</p>