Retake SAT for these schools?

Applying to College
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<p>I plan to apply to Cornell, MIT, Harvey Mudd, CMU, USC, GATech, NYU, UMD
SAT scores:
Math - 710
CR - 550
Writing - 680</p>

<p>Second sit:
Math - 750
CR - 540
Writing - 660</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=16092067[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=16092067&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>On my second sit i feel i got cheated. Refer to above post to know why.
Question is i could try hand scoring for $55. Or retake the SAT for $120. Or just leave it as is. I am planning to give math 2 and physics in october. Expecting 750+</p>

<p>What do u guys think?</p>

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<p>fyi I think your link will be edited out by the mods, they don’t like threads that are dependent on other threads. </p>

<p>I understand your frustration with it seeming like you didn’t omit answers, but your score is remarkably similar on the 2 sittings.</p>

<p>I think the low CR score will hurt you for these schools. I don’t know about the hand scoring, that may be worthwhile. But in this case, sitting for the 3rd time will be worthwhile but you must get that score up. Do some drilling on vocab. Go over all the recommended review books. Do some heavy reading over summer focusing on books like you would be reading in lit classes.
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