I’m a junior in high school who just took the act for the first time this past September and my composite score was a 33 and my writing was an 8. I really want to apply to schools like UPenn, Rice, and Vanderbilt so I was just wondering if I should retake the act since those schools have very high act scores.
The conventional wisdom is to take the same test, at least twice. You almost always do better the second time if taken fairly close to the 1st test.
^ The above is true, but I bet your score will jump if you wait until the end of junior year.