<p>For Yale University, I know that it requires you send either ALL your ACTs, ALL your SATs, or ALL of both. </p>
<p>My question is simple: how bad does it look if you have taken the ACT 4 times? </p>
<p>Furthermore, will it change my chance of admission if each time the score is 30+, but each are progressively stronger scores?</p>
<p>I know 4 is a little much, but I'm afraid Yale will doubt my intelligence from taking it that many times.
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<p>[No</a> choice on scores | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2009/jan/16/no-choice-on-scores/]No”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2009/jan/16/no-choice-on-scores/)</p>
<p>“He added that a large number of testing sittings will not necessarily have a positive or negative impact on a student’s application. Rather, each piece of information in an applicant’s file is considered in the context of all other information about him or her, Brenzel said.”</p>
<p>That being said, your score after 4 attempts is not as strong as another’s same score after one attempt.</p>
<p>Generally not a good idea to take it more than 3 times, especially if you’re getting 30+ each time, which makes you look desperate and is huge waste of your time. If you break 30 the first time, you should only take it one more time.</p>
<p>Since you’ve already taken it, there’s nothing you can do. It probably won’t make a very significant impact. Regardless of the impact it’ll make, you’ve taken it however many times you’ve taken it and must send all of the scores, so there’s no point worrying about it. At this point, it is what it is.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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<p>Technical correction, Y requires:</p>
<p>ACT: self-report all, send official score report for ONE.
SAT: self-report and send official score report for all.</p>
<p>Another part of the citation of Brenzel from the above link:</p>
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