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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question. A lot of people on here strongly advocate for a “one and done” approach to testing or say that kids should be limited to taking the SAT or ACT twice. I really don’t get that. Why does it matter? I understand the socioeconomic argument that kids who can afford coaching will have an advantage, but that doesn’t seem to be the motivation for most of the posters here who push for limits. This seems to be a mantra of parents who are taking issue with schools’ acceptance rates, individual decisions, etc.

I would genuinely like to understand the arguments. If a kid learns from mistakes or studies and improves between tests isn’t that a measure of success as a student? Of their ability to learn? What is the crucial significance in your opinion of getting your score in only one or two tries? [/quote]

For us, it is just part of the escalation of the college arms race.  Whereas back in the day when no superscoring, you take it maybe twice at most and you apply to like 5 colleges (because you are typing out each application).  Now there are kids taking it 3+ times, applying to 20 colleges, etc.

Superscoring has completely skewed things.  You can create a very high score out of two or more good but not great scores (at least what DCUM considers great).  Definitely know kids that never cracked 1500 in one sitting that superscored to over a 1550 by focusing their prep on one section over another.[/quote]

When was superscoring not done? I applied to college in the mid 70s and it was done then. 
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