<p>Okay, so i've to-date taken the ACT twice. And plan on taking it again; but in the chances i do the same/worse, or if this happens again, help me out.</p>
<p>The first time i took it i got: English 35, Reading 33, Math 25, Science 23
Which makes it a 29.
The second time i took it i got: English 33, Reading 31, Math 27, Science 28.
Which made my score a 30.</p>
<p>Aside from the latter score being higher, would colleges rather have me well-rounded with mediocre scores, or really good in English and Reading(I want to major in Journalism or Creative Writing...)</p>
<p>Also-
I know U of Chicago averages the best individual scores you get, to make an all new ACT score for you....(example. If i applied, i would have gotten a 31, since they would have taken my 35, 33, 27, and 28)
I know this is a rare occurance, and i'm not even looking at U of C...
Do other colleges even look at your individual scores, or just the total?</p>
<p>Yeah I would def. send your 2nd set of scores. But b4 that, why not take it again. It's obvioius you're a real capable english/reading student, prep for math and science and you should get 30+.</p>
<p>But otherwise, the science and math scores are probably too low for competitive universities. You definetly want to show you are a capable student in all subjects. You should be able to show your strength in english through other means anyways besides test scores if you intend on applying to top universites like Chicago.</p>
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<p>Depends on the university and what you want to major in. My daughter also had high English and reading scores, lower math and science (28 & 27), and a composite of 30. But her demonstrated passion was in a field that doesn't really relate to math and science. She just finished her first year at Brown and was admitted to two other competitive universities.</p>
<p>You can always ask schools what they look at. I know people on CC have asked about the ACT subscores before and gotten answers.</p>
<p>Dartmouth:
"Consistent with our intent to evaluate our applicants best performance, we will consider each applicants best composite score, and - where available - their writing score."
Notre Dame:
"The admission committee will accept the highest composite ACT score from any sitting."</p>
<p>I know that there are many other schools that do this as well...so thanks for trying to correct me.</p>
<p>nearly every school will take the 30, your best composite score, and normalize it against the SAT-ACT concordance table. (The 30 converts into a ~1320-1350.)</p>
<p>WashU is the only school (of which I am familiar) that will mix and match ACT subscores. UoC may now do the same, but Ted O'Neill has a disdain for testing anyway. hahahaha</p>
<p>A 30 is really good. I think that most schools only look at your composite anyway. They don't spend as much time looking at the individual parts of the ACT like the SAT. I mean on most applications they ask for your math and reading SAT scores. But they only ever ask for the composite ACT score. Just to reassure you I managed to get into Rice with a 22 science and a 25 math. My reading and english and writing were close to perfect which pulled up my compositie. If they put a huge weight on individual sections the math and science would have probably kept me from getting admitted.</p>
<p>Yeah I wouldn't worry about having uneven scores. I got a composite of 32 and over 30 for every part except science- a 23. Submit the sitting with the highest composite because I think that's what they really look at.</p>
<p>Someone told me here that Brown told him (or her) that it looks at individual subscores. But I don't know if that means they will pick the highest from different tests and use that, or simply that they look at what information the subscores can give them about an applicant.</p>
<p>Like I said before, it seems easy to just ask potential schools. I know there have been threads on this subject before and there is more than one school that will take the best subscores. But I don't remember the names ... the consensus has always been that the majority of schools take the best composite score.</p>