Question for test takers who have done bad Forum

[ms9]

Correct, I wrote it in 2013. Nothing has changed much, as I noted at the bottom with the "Oct 2015" update. All schools only care about the high score as I have been crying to the masses since 2006 when the ABA (and thus USNWR) started only collecting high scores.

[cub1014]

I have blogged about this very thing:

http://spiveyconsulting.com/blog/should ... sat-score/

Hey Spivey,
Would this also apply to schools like Cornell if, say, your score improved 2 points each on the second and third takes, based on the criterion they say they use for taking the highest score?

[ms9]

I have blogged about this very thing:

http://spiveyconsulting.com/blog/should ... sat-score/

Hey Spivey,
Would this also apply to schools like Cornell if, say, your score improved 2 points each on the second and third takes, based on the criterion they say they use for taking the highest score?

Yep! Whatever a school says, what they actually do is only care about the high score. The possible exception is Yale, who has a faculty admissions committee and who outspends per student the competition so absurdly highly that even if their LSAT score were to plummet because they were averaging they would still be ranked #1 USNWR. Any other school who would average would lose ground to their competition, and thus they do not. They say things a bit more ambiguously than that, but that don't average!