pammons

Each school does their own thing. But if you poke around their website they will let you know. The trend seems to be harder the school, the more likely they will look at the lower score. Since they dont know first hand why you got better... the admin officers I have talked to dont like retests... it makes you look like you went in cold turkey and are not taking this seriously.

yeah 144 is no good. I am graduating early too and some schools will give you a little extra admissions boost for that. However you're gonig to need to buckle down and study I took a kaplan diagnostic (practice) test freshman year and got a 153... I haven't been too diligent with studying and have only been able to improve by 10 points or so. I was talking to UT Laws admin officer and he warned me that everyone needs to shoot for higher scores than are the school's median. (you know the number that comes up in the schools profile) He said that since the economy is bad, people want to go to grad school rather than try to find a job... that means more competition so everyone needs to step up their game and scores if they want to get into a particular school. As far as programs go, I couldnt take any for time and money reasons, but books work for me and I am making the grades I want. From what I know if you want to make better than 144 Kaplan's fine, get them with a coupon/deal however if you want to make a practically perfect score, then Powerscore or Testmaster seems to be the consensus. But mainly just get a whole bunch of practice tests and go to town. Good luck Kiddo.