single sitting or superscore?

[Anonymous]

Odd question:

DC has taking the SAT twice. Scored a 1430 (690V, 740M) on the first sitting and a 1450 (720V, 730M) on the second.

Is it better to only submit the second sitting (1450) or should they submit the super score (1460), even though that would require showing the 690 verbal score? I'm wondering if those extra 10 points are really worth it...

[Anonymous]

Always superscore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Odd question:

DC has taking the SAT twice. Scored a 1430 (690V, 740M) on the first sitting and a 1450 (720V, 730M) on the second.

Is it better to only submit the second sitting (1450) or should they submit the super score (1460), even though that would require showing the 690 verbal score? I'm wondering if those extra 10 points are really worth it...

Submit only the single sitting. That is direct from a boarding school counselor who used to work as anAO for T20.

[Anonymous]

So they know it’s from a single sitting? How exactly. That would help my kid, but I wasn’t sure they would be able to tell. Don’t kids self report and they just ask for highest on each section?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So they know it’s from a single sitting? How exactly. That would help my kid, but I wasn’t sure they would be able to tell. Don’t kids self report and they just ask for highest on each section?

All or almost all top colleges on the common app make you type in both math and verbal from all dates you want to self report. They do not let you type just the top verbal score and the date and just the top math score and the date.

[Anonymous]

So if kid super scores, the college will see all the SAT scores (even the low ones)?

[Anonymous]

My experience is that a single score, one sitting, helps more than a superstore. but what do I know. lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if kid super scores, the college will see all the SAT scores (even the low ones)?

They will see the two verbal scores and the two math scores from the two sittings you are using to super score (not all scores if you took the test more than those two times).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always superscore

Can you explain why you say always superscore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Always superscore

Can you explain why you say always superscore?

If a college accepts superscores, they treat it the same as a single sitting score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So they know it’s from a single sitting? How exactly. That would help my kid, but I wasn’t sure they would be able to tell. Don’t kids self report and they just ask for highest on each section?

All or almost all top colleges on the common app make you type in both math and verbal from all dates you want to self report. They do not let you type just the top verbal score and the date and just the top math score and the date.

This is false. The common app (for schools who superstore) asks for highest math with date taken and highest verbal with date taken. Schools do not see the other scores until you are accepted and mail in the score reports

[Anonymous]

If they allow you to superscore why would you even consider not submitting your best scores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So they know it’s from a single sitting? How exactly. That would help my kid, but I wasn’t sure they would be able to tell. Don’t kids self report and they just ask for highest on each section?

All or almost all top colleges on the common app make you type in both math and verbal from all dates you want to self report. They do not let you type just the top verbal score and the date and just the top math score and the date.

This is false. The common app (for schools who superstore) asks for highest math with date taken and highest verbal with date taken. Schools do not see the other scores until you are accepted and mail in the score reports

+2 They don’t see all the scores and frankly don’t care. They want to report the highest score to CDS and USNWR. They do not care if it is a superscore or a single sitting. PP is wrong on this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So they know it’s from a single sitting? How exactly. That would help my kid, but I wasn’t sure they would be able to tell. Don’t kids self report and they just ask for highest on each section?

All or almost all top colleges on the common app make you type in both math and verbal from all dates you want to self report. They do not let you type just the top verbal score and the date and just the top math score and the date.

This is false. The common app (for schools who superstore) asks for highest math with date taken and highest verbal with date taken. Schools do not see the other scores until you are accepted and mail in the score reports

This. All you single sitting warriors have an axe to grind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So they know it’s from a single sitting? How exactly. That would help my kid, but I wasn’t sure they would be able to tell. Don’t kids self report and they just ask for highest on each section?

All or almost all top colleges on the common app make you type in both math and verbal from all dates you want to self report. They do not let you type just the top verbal score and the date and just the top math score and the date.

How about the non-top colleges?