Just chiming back in here. As I noted, above, my D21 insisted on retaking her SAT to make sure she got an 800 on the math section. We were just going over some of the stats for schools she is interested in for next year’s application season. One of the schools has 800 math as the 75th percentile of students. When she saw that, she said, “I told you so” to me, lol. However, again, I think this is very dependent on the individual student. My D knew she had a brain freeze on her first test, which was totally out of character. She knew she would get an 800 the next time around. Some students are just like that. It’s not a matter of luck or chance to them. Now, the EBRW score might have gone down because that section is not her strength. She knew that but was comfortable with the risk because of the possibility of superscoring. On the 2nd test, her EBRW stayed the same, however.
For most students, though, I agree that retaking a 1570 is not worth the time, money or effort.