should I retake the SATs?

KansasGirl
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:20:53 +0000

It’s a terrific score. It will put you in the top tier in almost any school. Having said that - some schools “super score” which means they will take the top score from each section and combine them into a superscore. Some use this superscore for admissions, some for scholarships. At some schools, the top merit scholarships will only go to “perfect” or nearly perfect scores, because they have superscored a 2400 or a 36. Yes some schools even superscore the ACT sections, not a lot, but some.

If you google “common data set” “name of school” 2009 … you can find the stats for the schools you are interested in for their 2009 freshman class. This will tell you pretty quickly how your score stacks up.