Should I cancel my SAT II score?

willywonka
Sat, 06 Nov 2004 10:43:00 +0000

Coming into today, I have a full set of SAT II scores. 800 Writing, 800 American History and 650 Spanish. I wanted to take a third test to substitute for my relatively poorer score on Spanish. So, I took the Literature test today, but I’m afraid I made mistake after mistake this week and didn’t take this test seriously at all.

I spaced out during it, and as we all know time budgeting is extremely tight and important on the Lit test. I ended up with 14 blank out of 61. The Kaplan book curves have that as a 720/730 on all ten tests. I came into the test thinking that I’d take anything above a 700, since I don’t think that it will raise no alarms beside my other scores. So, do I trust that I got the questions that I filled in correct, or do I realize that that’s very unlikely and cancel?

Only Dartmouth, Swarthmore and Washington & Lee will be receiving my SAT II scores on applications. Do you think any of those schools are so number-driven that a 1580, 800/800/680-720 will be cause for concern?