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Technically speaking, no. The Collegeboard will keep your test scores from all test dates on record under your Collegeboard account and profile (unless you specifically call to cancel your scores in the event of a calculator malfunction or illness during testing). This means that if a college asks you to send all of your scores (yes, they CAN ask students to not use Score Choice), you will have to send those low scores.
However, colleges like to make themselves look better when they can. (They have to report the average SAT scores of their incoming freshman classes to US News and World Report for ranking information, and they also have to provide data to profile books like the Princeton Review. Of course, higher numbers make them look more selective!) Colleges also like to help you out in the admissions process. So most of them are willing to look at only your top scores. This can be either from test date to test date or even from subject to subject.
For example, if you score 520 math/ 400 reading/ 560 writing on your first test but a 600 math/ 510 reading/ 420 writing on your second, a lot of colleges will ignore the lower math from test 1, the lower reading from test 1, and the lower writing from test 2. Some colleges (Tufts) have a computer system that will automatically select the highest scores you enter on your online app. These highest scores are the only ones the admissions officers will ever see, as the system hides all other scores for you.
In general, try to do well on the SAT. It's an important test that plays a huge role in college admissions/ scholarships/ etc. But if you do poorly on one section or test date, don't stress. Most likely, an admissions officer will ignore it if you retest better.
Good luck.
What else can I help you with?
What city in Illinois has the lowest school test scores?
Chicago schools have the lowest test scores.)~:
What are the lowest and highest ACT test scores?
Highest 36 Lowest 1
What are the 10 lowest winning scores in Jeopardy history?
Negative $2800 is the lowest winning score in Jeopardy history.
How do you find the lowest score on a series of student test scores?
MINIMUM
Does ascending order in statistics mean lowest to highest scores?
Yes
How come some of the judges scores in the Olympics are blue?
The highest and lowest judge scores are removed, and the remaining are averaged to get the final score. The scores that are removed are dimmed / blue.
What is UCLA's admission?
They admit about 23% of applicants from a wide range of testing scores.
England's lowest cricket scores?
The lowest I can think of are 46 in 1994 and 51 in 2009, both away against the West Indies.
Why are the highest and lowest judges scores disregarded in tallying the total score in a gymnastics competetion?
The highest and lowest scores in a gymnastics competition are thrown out so that the average scores are what is counted across the board. This both helps and harms the gymnast if they have an extreme score either way.
What effects have the people in Georgia had on their environmwnt?
The average English (esp. spelling) scores have dropped dramatically.
The mean of 5 different scores is 10 what are the largest and smallest possible values for the median if all test scores must be whole numbers?
If scores of zero are permitted, the lowest median is 2 as in (0,1,2,3,44) and the highest median is 10 as in (8,9,10,11,12). If a zero score is not permitted, then the lowest median is 3 as in (1,2,3,4,40).
How do you interpret CPA scores?
SAT scores are interpreted on the highest to the lowest. The higher the score the better you have done. If your score is low, it means that you did very poorly.
