ACT State and District Testing - Sent in Score Reports to Four Colleges

Test Preparation
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So today in high school all the juniors had to take the ACT because of State and District Testing. As a junior, I took this and in doing so selected four colleges (University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, Miami University, and Case Western Reserve University) to send score reports. I really wish I hadn’t done that because I think I did really, really bad on the ACT overall (the only dead easy section was English to me). I’m so used to the SAT and find that way easier than the ACT; today was my very first time taking the ACT, albeit on a school day and not on the weekends, making it seem less official. Since I find the SAT ten trillion times easier than the ACT and am going to try to get a 1360+ score (new SAT), will colleges focus on the better, improved SAT scores and disregard the terrible ACT score? Because I’m really, really worried that this ACT score will hurt my admissions so much that I won’t even get into college. (That said, I won’t ever take the ACT again, only the SAT as I find that better suited for me.)

2

Can you log in and change the recipients? I think that is possible for a few days after the test.

And you probably didn’t do as poorly as you think…

3

You can cancel your test completely before it’s scored (I think at no cost). You can also unselect the free reports (so that potentially bad scores don’t go out) and pay for a score delete after seeing your results.

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Since this isn’t the most official ACT test and I didn’t register through the website, I don’t think I can change the recipients or cancel the scores since it’s State and District Testing. :frowning:

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Since there’s nothing I can really do, I’m just going to prep super hard for the SAT and get a good score to make up for the bad ACT score…

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You might check with your guidance counselor about changing or deleting the score recipients. Sounds like you definitely can’t cancel the scores, but he/she might have come across this before and have a way to help.

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In any event, if you provide both an SAT and an ACT to the four colleges you mention, they, like other colleges, will use to determine admission that test they believe to have the better scores and ignore the other.

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Thanks so much for the replies, guys. I just spoke with my guidance counselor and she said that colleges will want to look at the better score and pretty much disregard the probably crappy ACT score. So yeah, I think I can sleep now.