<p>emswim,
you could, but only if you have the rest of your application in good order - SAT II’s, essays started, classes up to date, and so on. If you are consistant scoring perfect or nearly so in the math section, and you have the time, you could give it a shot. Just remember, though, that stuff gets old and exhausting in senior year. You don’t want to expend time, energy and enthusiasm that could be better spend on classes, an essay, an activity - or catching up with your sleep.</p>
<p>I had an 800v and 680m on the old SAT and retook it, got another 800 v and a 710m, so I think as long as you don’t get over-confident, you have a really good chance of doing just as well again</p>
<p>If you read the SAT online score report (available on the CB site with the New SAT) they give you the percent of people with your score who retook and got a higher score, lower score or same score.
For my 800 critical reading the percents were…
0% score higher, 84% score lower, 16% remained the same</p>
<p>So with that in mind…I’m guessing people who did well in CR have about a 16% chance of maintaining their 800.</p>
<p>Not sure what these numbers are for Math because I didn’t get an 800 =)
I’m sure someone who did well will be willing to provide the info from their score report.</p>
<p>I think that for the SAT reasoning Math section 800 = zero wrong (unlike the Sat subject Math tests.) The odds of not being tricked even once in that long test are low. I’m not surprised that most 800 scorers drop on retaking.</p>