Scholarship money?

cesium55
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:09:11 +0000

Daddio3:

telling someone to retake the SAT when they have a 2310 is silly.



Perhaps it is, but I would have brought up the same idea had she scored a 2390 (but not, say, a 2200, since a 200 point gap is not easy to overcome). Getting a 2400 SAT student is huge for a lot of schools. The first thing admissions talk about when boasting about the incoming class is their incoming students’ SAT scores (eg. http://admissions.rpi.edu/undergraduate/Fall_2012_Counselor_Newsletter.pdf ). In the case of RPI, an additional 2400 would increase the perfect SAT count for last year’s incoming student body by 50%. I would imagine many schools – not just RPI – would be willing to pay well to bump these numbers, as little as they actually mean.

Again, perhaps only the people deciding on FA know how they really calculate these things, but I suspect the additional effort (and small fee) of studying for and retaking the test may be well worth it.