<p>Does that mean that I can take it three times:</p>
<p>1st try:
800 | 200 | 200</p>
<p>2nd try:
200 | 800 | 200</p>
<p>3rd try:
200 | 200 | 800</p>
<p>And that basically means I got a 2400? :D</p>
<p>The College Board does research on what happens when students retake the SAT </p>
<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; </p>
<p>and colleges set their own policies about what to do if an applicant submits more than one set of scores. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1</a> </p>
<p>I see the OP is still posting in other threads, but I don’t know what the OP decided about retaking the tests or not.</p>
<p>I was reading these posts and just wondering what “super-score” means. So, does anyone want to tell me?</p>
<p>Just to continue the discussion about your idea of “crummy schools”, you just need to realize it is the school is not what makes a student successful it is the STUDENT that determines his/her own success. I think a lot of people are easily confused when the see the widespread success of students at HYP-like schools assuming that if you go to these schools you will be sucessful. But the reality is these schools attract ambitious students that exhibit the qualities that one needs to be successful in college: grade conscious, active outside and inside of the classroom, studying hard for standardized tests, etc. Thus, these students don’t need to be at HYP to be successful, they could go to a “crummy school” and be just as successful. While you may be skeptical, one example I can provide to support this are the top MD/PhD programs in the nation. One day I was looking at the accepted to MD/PhD programs at Harvard, JHU, and UCSF and what did I see? A few HYP students but also a lot of students from relatively unknown universities proving that it is what you do not where you go that determines success.</p>
<p>The term “superscore” is used to refer to the practice of (many, but not all) colleges that consider a student’s scores on the SAT I section-by-section in the case of students who submit more than one set of scores. It’s not clear how many students look better by this method than by considering best single-sitting SAT scores, but each college applies the same rule (superscoring or not) to all of its applicants. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=373227[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=373227</a> </p>
<p>for a little more background.</p>
<p>well this probably doesn’t matter because you don’t want to go to a state school…</p>
<p>but UC’s do NOT superscore.</p>
<p>It seems as though most schools superscore SAT but don’t superscore ACT, and as best I can tell, the reason is that the “combined” SAT score is simply the sum of the three (or two) subsets of the test, while the combined ACT score is the average of the four ACT subsets. I don’t know how ACT arrives at the average, although it looks on the surface like it’s just the average (mean) of the four sub-scores rounded to the nearest whole number, which, if true, would make superscoring the ACT not all that hard either.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s easiest for the schools not to superscore either test, and some choose not to.</p>
<p>jbusc:</p>
<h1>21??? hahahahahahaha</h1>
<p>Actually Udub is very good in lots of areas, Comp Sci, creative writing, psychology, biosciences, engineering, and even business are very good. BTW you might “definately” want to work on your spelling. Ibanks are very picky about that.</p>
<p>Yes, kluge, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the ACT composite score is exactly the rounded arithmetic mean of the four section scores.</p>