Retake THESE SAT scores???

MomOFour
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:40:00 +0000

ac32, it’s not about parents giving kids a break. I don’t see anyone here berating their kids that they should have done better. My daughter with a 2230 is retaking, her choice, for two reasons. She got one wrong on the math and would like to give it a try for a perfect score. I think that’s rather silly, but she thinks when she’s forty and people reminisce about their SAT scores of yore she’d like to be able to say she got an 800 on math. Before you think she’s an uptight perfectionist, please know she’s never prepped for the SAT and isn’t about to start now. She approaches it with a what the hell, why not try it again attitude. The second reason for a retake is a just under 700 CR score. There are schools with 700 cutoffs for each section for merit aid. She’s also planning to apply to LACs where a 690CR would not be above the 75%ile. She’s unhooked, a middle-class white girl from an over-represented state, yeah I had no problem forking over another registration fee.