Anyone have experience with hand-scoring services?

<p>In the ACT booklet I received in the mail, it says that you can have your essay rescored for $40.00. That is a fairly hefty amount, but I was rather disappointed with my essay score (no improvement from the first time I took the test).</p>

<p>I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with this and had their combined English/Writing score go up. Even though the combined score doesn't affect the composite, I'm worried that colleges will see the 3 point difference between my English and combined English scores.</p>