On the CommonApp, it asks for students to report their highest Writing or combined English/Writing. With the new writing design, we no longer get English/Writing; we get ELA instead. What should I report in this section?
a. 31 (writing)
b. 32 (ELA)
c. 33 (if I were to compute my English/writing)
c. 33 (if I were to compute my English/writing)
Do not compute anything. Obviously, the common app has not yet been redesigned to allow for the new scores being reported by ACT starting with the Sep test. The ELA is a combined English/reading/writing score and thus not quite equivalent to the previous English/writing score. I would either just leave the space blank or put in the ELA score. Colleges rely on the offical scores sent by the testing agency and not what you self-report on the app so it will not make any real difference.