Taking my SAT's twice

Alone
Sun, 17 May 2009 23:00:45 +0000

I disagree with soxfan2048 to some extent, as admission to Stanford is super-competitive so it’s impossible to know if you will or will not get in, and even for URMs with amazing stats, commitments, and whatnot there are no guarantees; you can’t really single out the fact that he took SATs 5 times.

I’m, you do not get your SATs averaged if you take more than three times. Although I couldn’t find official info on this issue on Stanford’s website, most of the adm. officers of top schools said they do not mind how many times you take it, as they superscore, and anyway someone could’ve taken 10 practice tests and one real SAT getting higher official score, while someone else could’ve had no opportunities to prepare and took it ‘cold’ 4 times, and got a considerably lower score than the guy who, ‘in general’, took it 11 times. As I said, I do not have any official stuff from Stanford to support this, but I think all top schools treat this same way, especially since now you don’t need to send all of your score reports anyway. On average, I think, students take SAT 3 times. Just don’t take it 10 :)