<p>I’m a junior as of right now and I have taken the SAT once. I plan to take it 3 times to show some progression in my studies, but I would like to confirm one thing with people that have done early action already (Since most EA applicants are accepted)</p>
<p>Is there enough time to take one more SAT before applying for early decision?</p>
<p>The next SAT is administered in early June, and you could still register for that, although you’ll have to pay a late registration fee of $27 in addition to regular fees for the test. But hurry if you’re going to do that, the deadlines are coming up fast.</p>
<p>After that, you’ll have to wait until the first Saturday in October. Those test scores get delivered around the beginning of November, and will be there in time for consideration for Early Action at MD. Your application deadline is firm, but they seem to be flexible about SAT score delivery, understanding that a lot of people want to re-take the SAT in October, your first opportunity to take it in your senior year. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that U MD superscores - what your admission rep sees is your highest score for each section. The idea is not to show progression with the SAT, but to get the highest possible score in each section, regardless of when it was taken. So if you get a 800 in CR and 700 in Math the first time, then 700 in CR and 800 in Math the second time, the rep sees 2 800’s and you are so admitted! Ha, ha, no pressure.</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that MD does not consider the Writing score, so you can safely focus on just the Critical Reading and Math, if that’s any help.</p>
<p>It’s really important to get the best SAT scores you can, so study, study, study over the summer! Your score is used in admissions for 2 purposes: the decision to admit you or not, and also for a determination of merit aid. U MD is very stingy with merit aid, so to get anything you will need higher stats than for admittance. You will, of course, also need a good GPA. Neither high SAT scores and low GPA nor low SAT score and high GPA is good enough - you need both for admittance to competitive programs and for merit aid. </p>
<p>And don’t confuse correlation and causation with EA - students applying EA generally have higher stats, and are more competitive candidates.</p>
<p>For EA they will accept up til November SAT/ACT.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand how taking the SAT multiple times shows “a progression in your studies.” Seems to me, it shows nothing more than that you’ve taken the SAT multiple times; at best, it might show that you did better the third time than the first. But that’s no kind of “progression” in your studies. That’s the SAT.</p>
<p>You show progress in your studies by taking serious academic classes and doing well in them. You progress from Spanish II to Spanish III, or from Algebra II to Precalculus. Maybe you progress from standard to honors or honors to AP. But any kind of progress in your studies will be revealed by your transcript, not your SAT scores.</p>