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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My junior got an 800 math last fall. He took the SAT again at school this week. He’s convinced he didn’t max out in math again. Do schools look negatively on super scores vs single sitting? His English score still has room for improvement and he’s unsure whether it would make sense to take it again, or to submit his score from last fall only.

Obviously he doesn’t yet know his score but he is worrying about the issue and thinks that even if you super score colleges see both scores not just your strongest.[/quote]

My kids each took the SAT two times.  First, they don't actually know how they did because some of the questions are experimental so they could have messed up questions that don't count toward the score.  Second, if he is thinking about cancelling, I recommend against it because as you noted, most schools superscore, so a higher English score would be great.  Finally, just see what they get and how they feel about it and whether they want to take it again.  In my case, both of my kids got an 800 math the first time, and lower scores on both sections their second time, and they did not want to take the test a third time so the first time was it.

Besides MIT and Georgetown, no other schools care about how many sittings and they all want the superscores because it helps raise the SAT medians of their first-year class.[/quote]

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