<p>I disagree with Bartleby’s advice. Read this: [What’s</a> the big deal about 40^2? | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/whats_the_big_deal_about_402]What’s”>What’s the big deal about 40^2? | MIT Admissions).</p>
<p>Even at the most selective colleges and universities, those scores are good enough to keep your application alive until you get to “committee,” where the whole admissions committee (or maybe a large subset of it) discuss your application and weigh you against other applicants. Once you’re “in committee,” they’ve already decided that you (and all the other applicants) are academically well qualified, and they’re really basing their decisions on things other than SAT scores.</p>