<p>Hi I recently received my ACT scores and I got a composite score of 36. But two weeks later I got my English score with the essay included and i got a 32 (My English score was a 35 without the essay). Will this have a negative impact on my achievement? Especially in schools like Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, and Cornell/Princeton? (I am aspiring to study in Chemical Engineering)</p>
<p>I got a 33 composite on my ACT and got accepted early to Dartmouth engineering. If you’re going into the sciences your English score almost doesn’t matter at all (as long as it’s half-way decent). At CalTech and Stanford, pretty much every applicant has scores about that high, so don’t rely on your test scores to make you stand out.</p>
<p>Though they require the ACT with writing if you submit ACT, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and Cornell do not actually use the essay score or combined essay score/English for determining admission. They also do not use the essay score from the SAT. Princeton does but does not say what impact it may have.</p>