<p>If I have taken the ACT writing, can I just retake the ACT w/o writing or I have to take it all over again? Do colleges that don't superscore let you take the ACT writing from previous test with ACT w/o writing and put together?</p>
<p>My son found himself in that position - he had a high score without writing (33) and a decent score with writing (29 - the writing score was excellent) - and in the end, I don’t think it hurt him. He did have a high class rank, high gpa and rigorous course and ec load to go with his test scores, but he got into four of the five schools that required ACT with writing. He was waitlisted at the other. Was he waitlisted because the score of the ACT without writing was in but not above their mid-fifty range? … maybe, but I don’t think so. He was an oos applicant and it was a real long shot. Having said that, my advice is this; if you are going to retake the ACT, take it with the writing portion. Since there is no way to know how the schools you apply to are going to view the ACT scores without writing if they require writing, it’s not worth the uncertainty and the worry you’ll go through at application time.</p>
<p>I agree, if you are going to retake the ACT, why not just retake it w/the writing portion? It’s only $10 extra, and only adds another 35 minutes or so onto the test. My daughter is sort of in a predicament because she took the ACT w/out writing through her high school. She didn’t take the writing portion of it because the state of Illinois cut funding and didn’t offer the writing portion to the students who were taking the ACT this year. She took it on April 14th and got a good score, a 30, but she thinks she might have done even better on the one that she took through her high school. If that score is higher, she will still send it, even to schools that require an ACT w/writing, but she will also send her scores w/the writing as well. She’s also taking it in early June, so hopefully she can top her 30 on that test. I would definitely say to retake the ACT w/writing. Good luck!</p>