<p>Is there any flaw to this strategy?</p>
<p>The Problem: I would like to improve my SAT score but am afraid that the 2nd attempt may be lower. And that would be fatal.</p>
<p>What about score choice, you say? Too risky. Any school - especially the elite - can demand to see all your SAT scores.</p>
<p>The Solution: Take the SAT once. Take the ACT once. Simply use the highest score… and your school(s) of choice will never know about the other examination.</p>
<p>well… an elite school may have the SAT II requirement, which if you did poorly on the ACT would be no big deal. However, if it was reversed and assuming you did well on the subject tests, they’d still see your SAT I score.</p>
<p>However, my son’s college counselor is pretty adamant that admission committees really do take the highest scores and more than a few also superscore the SAT so that if you take it more than once they take the highest score from each section to essentially give you a completely new total. They will look at your other scores on the ACT if you’ve taken it more than once, but usually will not give you a new composite score.</p>
<p>So… I think the strategy has to based purely on the school to which you are applying and obviously there will be more than one unless you get in ED.</p>
<p>And don’t assume you’ll do worse necessarily. My son took it three times, went up across the board every time and ended up a full 100 points above where he started on one section.</p>