Retake a 1540?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely retake if she wants to. Every incremental boost gets you closer to merit scholarships because the top institutions will trade for bragging rights. The moment my kid moved from 32 to a 34 ACT to a 36, the unsolicited full ride scholarships started coming in.

You mean to Ole Miss or Alabama?

[Anonymous]

Is it a 780/800 on math?

[Anonymous]

Due to supercoring many who are in the 1400+ range end up getting 1550+. Relative to this pool a score of 1540 looks average to modestly weak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Due to supercoring many who are in the 1400+ range end up getting 1550+. Relative to this pool a score of 1540 looks average to modestly weak.

This is quite aggravating, but what can you do? Gotta play the game, I guess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it a 780/800 on math?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Congrats. Great score, leave it alone, focus on other things to make the entire application that much more valuable.

DD (junior) got 35 ACT (~1540 SAT by the comparison charts, so pretty comparable). One and they're done. Unsure of where they want to go, but by all accounts and guidance, that'll largely clear the testing hurdle for just about every school (Math was 36). There are no doubt some exceptions.

Getting them to focus on taking a breath, keeping their grades up, and enjoying their ECs. In sum, focus on the significant parts of the applications.

Also, keep in mind that some top schools don't superscore -- they have "score choice" or other things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Due to supercoring many who are in the 1400+ range end up getting 1550+. Relative to this pool a score of 1540 looks average to modestly weak.

lol. The stats say otherwise.

Look at the 75% scores of any school.

A 1540 even with superscoring is not common.

[Anonymous]

If 790/800 math, retake. Reading is low. AO's will tell you they'd rather see 770/770 than 800/740.

[Anonymous]

Ours retook a 1530. His call - he was annoyed that the math score was below his practice tests. Got a 1560 second time. Doubt it moved the needle but he got into his ED school.

[Anonymous]

If she wants to retake, let her. She'll be resentful if you don't let her and she doesn't get into her top choice. No harm to retake and it'll make her feel better

[Anonymous]

DS got a 1570. We had target of 1580. So he took it again. Got a 1590. Glad he took it again because we knew he could do better than a 1570. Also the schools he is targeting have a lot of kids in the 1590/1600 range.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the biggest humble brag on DCUM.

Agreed. Good lord...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the biggest humble brag on DCUM.

I am not sure that I would even characterize this as a humble brag. It is a straight up arrogant brag.

Yes. Let your daughter take the SAT again. It is her decision not yours mommy. Stop living vicariously through your daughter. If she can’t make her own decisions concerning the SAT, she has no business going to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely retake if she wants to. Every incremental boost gets you closer to merit scholarships because the top institutions will trade for bragging rights. The moment my kid moved from 32 to a 34 ACT to a 36, the unsolicited full ride scholarships started coming in.

You[b] mean to Ole Miss or Alabama?

No. But he hadn’t indicated in his testing paperwork that he was interested in going that far south. The schools buy the profiles of students they want to attract. In this case kid had stats and characteristics some schools were willing to throw money at to get: no. 1 in class, class president, 35/36 ACT, engineering interest , Eagle Scout, etc. The fulll- ride scholarships came from SLACs. The actual amount of the scholarship jumped each time he went from 32 to 34 to 36z