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Hey everyone, your advice would be much appreciated. I did a very dumb thing and retook a 170. In my defense, I was PTing between 173-178 for the last 3 months, which is the only reason I decided to do it. Score release today was a nightmare and I got a 167, which I haven't scored since before the June test. There were no extenuating circumstances besides test anxiety and normal Proctor U issues. I have score preview, but I'm not sure whether a second cancel would look worse than a 3 point score drop. Things to consider (1) Admissions could assume the cancel was much worse than a 167 (2) 167 and 170 are technically in the same score band, but now it looks like I am at the lower end rather than the higher end (3) I can't retake before my applications are due so don't ask lol. If it helps, I am a nURM, nKJD, 3.90 applicant that graduated a year early from a non-ivy with some international/bilingual work experience trying for a T-10 school (NYU is my dream). Thanks for all of your help! I've heard such mixed things.
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Cancel and write the addendum addressing that cancellation
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I would cancel. Excuse my bluntness, but it's better to have some think you had a lower score and not know, versus have them see that you got a 167. Score band isn't really important, 167-170 makes a drastic difference at the top. You're 170 is good, it's hard to attribute any rationale of thought to the adm. committees as far as how they will see your cancellation because there are so many possibilities. They would probably assume it is lower than a 170, but by how much, they really can't say. If you truly did have ProctorU issues, like virtually every human who takes the test now. A simple one line in the addendum of your app would be fine. "Reviewers of my application may notice a cancellation on my recent LSAT history. During the (insert month here) test, technical issues with the proctoring software took some time out of my test and resulted in a score that doesn't represent my abilities".
Writing the addendum is a sketchier decision that to cancel, I would do more school specific research, but the deans of both HLS and YLS said that they want to know if technical issues affected your test because that is obviously unrelated to your abilities. If your research tells you that you might should write an addendum about it, keep it brief, to the point, explanatory, and don't turn it into an excuse-fest.
Thanks for the advice! So if I do an addendum, should I cancel or keep it?
The only thing I'm wondering is if you think cancelling w/ addendum is better than keeping w/ addendum because the way I see it, a 167 with proctor issues seems better than risking them assuming I got a 140 or something with proctor issues. Perhaps it shows I was on track to breaking the 170 if not for proctor issues? Just thought I would get your two cents on this before I cancel, since I have basically a split reaction no matter where I post asking for help.
P.S. I'm thinking of seeing decisions roll in and then signing up for the April LSAT to try and get off waitlists if needed.