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Should I retake the SAT Reasoning Test?

I took the October 1, 2011 SAT and I scored relatively well. I got 730 on Critical Reading, 780 on Math and 770 on Writing (9 Essay). Now I know 2280 is an amazing score, but I am only a Junior and that was my first attempt. If I retake the test, I think I could get around 2350. I haven't formally started looking at colleges, but the ones I have in mind are UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Duke, UChicago and Harvard (maybe). Also, most of my desired schools allow the superscoring of the SAT. What do you guys think, should I take it again?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Well there's always a risk to retaking.

    Some colleges require you to send all of your scores and if you do well the first time, but screw up the second time, that might impact your application to those colleges. I suggest you only retake if you are about a good 90 percent confident that you will do better the next time.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Don't retake the SAT. Your combined critical reading and mathematics score is 1510, which is certainly adequate for all the schools you mentioned (colleges consider the writing portion of the exam a joke and often don't give as much weight to it). So, why waste the money?

    Also, all of the colleges you mentioned will look at a heck-of-a lot more than your test scores and GPA. So worry about improving those areas instead.

    Good luck!

    Source(s): Accepted to UCLA, UCSD, USC, UT Austin McCombs School of Business, etc. fall 2010
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    You're on track for Berkeley and UCLA. The other schools are crapshoots for everyone. Honestly, once you reach a certain minimum score (about 2250) you're good to go and an extra one hundred points won't really make a huge difference at the schools you're aiming for. Of course, if you're willing to spend more time and money retaking the SAT, it can't hurt, but there are better things to do with your time :\

    Here's the ultimate website that every aspiring college student uses:

    http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-...

  • 10 years ago

    Go ahead. They take your highest score, so it wouldn't hurt.

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