<p>Do you know if it matters to a university if you bombed at your first SAT but you did very well when you took it a second time?</p>
<p>Do they care about your first score or do they always just care about the best score you achieved? </p>
<p>Whats that superscore about? I know its your best scores in every section added but what is it good for?</p>
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<li>Usually not.</li>
<li>Best scores.</li>
<li>Gives you the benefit of considering good scores from a certain date. Not very useful when everyone else has superscores too though.</li>
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<p>So even if I apply for an Ivy League University, they will only care about the best score I achieved?</p>
<p>So I could take just for fun or rather to get to know them?</p>
<p>I took it “for fun” as a sophomore in March and got a pretty bad score (2040). But then I retook in December and got a 2340. I’m not at all worried that colleges will use my old score against me.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people.</p>
<p>Whatever you wanted to say with that.</p>
<p>Thanks to the others.</p>
<p>Is this a stupid question?</p>
<p>What’s stupid is that a certain someone thought getting a 2040 as a sophomore is “pretty bad”.</p>
<p>2040 is bad if you’re trying to get into MIT or Harvard, but a lot of people might envy that score. I’ll be fine if I get a 700+ on each section but I’m not worried about not getting a 750+ on each section. </p>
<p>Take it as many times as you want to. Take it 7 times if you need to. I’m trying to get it over with on my first try, but if you get like a 750 on Math and a 690 on CR and a 730 on Writing, then you can focus all your attention on just CR for the next test so taking it many times can be beneficial at times.</p>