I think the use case is very limited, but if you have the money and it makes you feel better then go for it. Law schools generally take a cancelled score to mean that it went poorly, and a cancelled score still uses one of your attempts. Law schools also generally only look at your highest score.
If it’s your first test and you score well below your goal score, it gives you room to show improvement through time. There’s also no guarantee that you will perform better and you may wish you still had the option to use that score.
If you already have a score on the books and you cancel afterwards schools will typically assume you did worse than your previous tests.
Score preview is just an insurance policy in case you end up doing worse than you're okay with reporting to schools. If you look around at different law schools' websites, many explicitly state that if they see a cancelled score (aka. they don't see any score, they just see a cancelled test take), they don't factor that cancellation into your admissions decision. Way better to have a canceled score, in my opinion, than a one-off bad test that a law school may factor into their admissions decision for you because they can easily see it on your record.
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I think the use case is very limited, but if you have the money and it makes you feel better then go for it. Law schools generally take a cancelled score to mean that it went poorly, and a cancelled score still uses one of your attempts. Law schools also generally only look at your highest score.
If it’s your first test and you score well below your goal score, it gives you room to show improvement through time. There’s also no guarantee that you will perform better and you may wish you still had the option to use that score.
If you already have a score on the books and you cancel afterwards schools will typically assume you did worse than your previous tests.
IMO save the money but you do you
If you can afford it, 100% yes.
Score preview is just an insurance policy in case you end up doing worse than you're okay with reporting to schools. If you look around at different law schools' websites, many explicitly state that if they see a cancelled score (aka. they don't see any score, they just see a cancelled test take), they don't factor that cancellation into your admissions decision. Way better to have a canceled score, in my opinion, than a one-off bad test that a law school may factor into their admissions decision for you because they can easily see it on your record.
not for me. cant afford all the additional fee
I think it depends. First time I took it, I got it because I wasn't sure how I was going to do. Next time I don't think I will use it.
No