SATs...

All of your SAT scores will be sent to the colleges of your choice, but they (the colleges) will use the combined highest scores when they consider you for admission. Hope this helps!

JH, all of your SAT scores will be sent to the colleges by the collegeboard - you can't pick and choose. But many colleges do "superscore" - they take the highest score for each section from all test dates and consider the total of the 3 highest scores from all sittings for the test as your SAT. Not every school does this. You'll have to check with each of the schools you are looking at - some college websites specifically address this point. The coach will also know if his school superscores or not.

Have you taken the ACT? With the ACT, you can elect to send scores from one test date and not another.

JH,
haven't seen ya around. It looks like your in real good shape with your SAT's. Make sure you take the time to take the ACT's. Lots of schools are using them especially outside the Northeast.

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Originally posted by pudgemom31:
...they (the colleges) will use the combined highest scores when they consider you for admission.

Not necessarily, as pointed out by PIS. Many schools do this, but not all. He will need to check with the individual schools to find out for sure.

Don't worry about all scores being sent. The school will either consider your highest overall score or your best "superscore". Lower scores on other tests will not influence them.

Coach Merc- I've been around. Real busy...college/summer ball etc. Played in the ESG which was a lot of fun. I was happy with the SAT scores so we will see how that pans out for college.

You're absolutely right and I apologize...not ALL colleges superscore, but after having gone through the college admission process, I have found that schools who do not use the highest combined scores are the exception. There are a few schools who use the highest single sitting, though, so retaking still is not a bad idea. The easiest way to find out what a school does is to call their admissions office. Also, check to see if the college you are interested in considers the writing score. I believe some consider it with a lesser emphasis (i.e. SAT II score) and some are not really using it at all yet (2009 is the target for the writing score to be an integral part of the SAT score/admission process).

I'd agree that schools that don't superscore are the exception. Univ of Michigan, the UC's and Northwestern come to mind as schools that look at scores by single sitting. Best to know if the schools you are looking at are in this subset.

Thanks to all for the responses. I have signed up for the 10/06 SATs and hopefully can bring that specific section up. We will see what happens, but at least I feel I have a good overall score.

As I get closer to deciding on specific schools, I will call the admissions offices at the school and find out if they superscore. If they do, that's even better for me I guess. Thanks a lot and Coach Merc, I'll see you around this fall