Pros and Cons of signing up to retake in December (+ to cancel or not?) Forum
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EEEEE
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Pros and Cons of signing up to retake in December (+ to cancel or not?)
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cbbinnyc
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Re: Pros and Cons of signing up to retake in December (+ to cancel or not?)
Short answer: Don't cancel. Study better. Take again in December.
Canceling is only for people who truly bombed. It sounds like, at worst, you scored pretty much the same as in June. And if there's even a chance that you scored higher, canceling is a bad move. Also, your considerations are assuming that you actually have a significant increase in December, which hopefully you will ... but, if you don't, then your choice will be between three decent scores, or two decent scores and a cancelation of a score that might have been your highest but you'll never know.
Canceling is only for people who truly bombed. It sounds like, at worst, you scored pretty much the same as in June. And if there's even a chance that you scored higher, canceling is a bad move. Also, your considerations are assuming that you actually have a significant increase in December, which hopefully you will ... but, if you don't, then your choice will be between three decent scores, or two decent scores and a cancelation of a score that might have been your highest but you'll never know.
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pterodactyls
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Re: Pros and Cons of signing up to retake in December (+ to cancel or not?)
+1cbbinnyc wrote:Short answer: Don't cancel. Study better. Take again in December.
Canceling is only for people who truly bombed. It sounds like, at worst, you scored pretty much the same as in June. And if there's even a chance that you scored higher, canceling is a bad move. Also, your considerations are assuming that you actually have a significant increase in December, which hopefully you will ... but, if you don't, then your choice will be between three decent scores, or two decent scores and a cancelation of a score that might have been your highest but you'll never know.
The only school that really cares about how many takes you have is Yale. Most others will just take your highest score.
I don't see the point in cancelling. Might as well find out how you did for study purposes at the least. And there's still a chance you could have done better.
If you think you can score even a point higher in December, it would be worth retaking.
