Do colleges really look at the highest of each of your SAT scores?

Question

Back in January I took the SAT and did fairly good on it with a 690 in math, 660 in writing, and a 630 in reading. I didn't do as good in the June one on any of the tests I don't think. I am holding out hope that I improve by twenty points on just one of the tests so that I can have an overall 2000 because I have been told despite the fact they can see all of them, your "official" ones that are written down are just your top score from each section. By the way, if I don't improve on any of them, will this affect me? It's just so frusterating because my high school has block scheduling so I didn't have math for about five months when I took the June one.

Answer 1

The schools do look at your highest score from each time you take the test.  You can actually take it as many times as you want and they will take the highest score for each of the 3 parts of the test.

Answer 2

Yeah that's all they do.  Unless you take it more than 3 times.  I am past SAT, but I am in college taking the LSAT.  We also can take it three times for highest score.