Hi everyone,
I apply to some schools that do not participate in score-choice, and I would like to know how my 3 ACT scores (30, 32, 34) will affect me, opposed to only sending a 34?
Does it drastically weaken my application?
(I have never taken the SAT I and only 770s and 800s on my SAT IIs. )
No.
any other thoughts?
Can you get the 30 and 32 deleted?
@cappex what that’s possible? how?
http://www.actstudent.org/faq/delete.html
The question is whether it is worth it or not…
@cappex thanks. how much does it cost?
some colleges will find out if you deleted your scores based on your transcript or school records. You’re scores are good enough to send all of them and not be penalized
It is free, just costs time and effort. Go ahead and let ACT know so they can mail you the forms.
@CCSenioritis Yeah, that’s why you call your school and tell them not to send your ACT scores. What sucks is they already sent them to half the schools I am applying to, but whatever. Hopefully they will consider the highest one when they receive it. (Especially when they don’t officially have the lower scores from ACT).
@leonardo2020 if you do apply to a school that requires all scores and they discover you deleted some then any admission will be rescinded. If you are already in school you can get thrown out. Weigh the risks carefully.
@CCSenioritis @“Erin’s Dad” thanks for your feedback! I came to the conclusion that I won’t delete them.
If college requires all scores, you need to send all. All such colleges profess that they will use the highest scores to detemrine admisison and not hold lower scores against you. Most use that ACT test with highest composite but some use the highest section scores from the multiple tests.
@drusba If that is true, then what is the point in them requiring all the scores?
So if the schools gets the 30 32 and 34, yet their average is 34, the lower ones will not be a reason for rejection/not good merit aid?
When College Board adopted score choice beginning with the March 2009 test, a number of elite, or better described, ellitist colleges, with Yale being the loudest whiner, threw hissy fits expressing outrage that College Board would ever think of doing such a thing to them and immediately adopted all scores rules, including for some of those colleges that the rule would apply not just to SAT but also ACT for which no college had never previously required or gotten all test scores. Most of the stated reasons at the time were incomprehsible except to demonstrate that they were foaming at the mouth over College Board’s insubordination. It was not until almost a year later that all those colleges came out with a reason for their all scoresa rule that could be used to justify their temper tantrums and conform with their rule that they do not use lower scores against you. Obviously, they had gotten together to create a justification so they would not look vindictive and self-righteous any longer. Though the wording of it varies somewhat among the colleges, the stated reason for the rule became that they wanted all scores not to use lower scores against you but to see how many times you took the tests to score high, a factor that they could consider, other than lower scores, particularly when they had applicants who likely could not afford to take multiple tests.
Since spring of 2009 a number of colleges that adopted all scores rules have dropped them. Only one college, Duke, has since adopted one (this year). There are currently only about 20 colleges, 12 if you count the UCs as one, that actually have an all scores rule and among those the rules differ, e,g, some reqiore only all SAT scores if you send SAT but not all ACT or subject test scores, some require all SAT and ACT scores but not all subject test socres, some require all SAAT or all ACT, plus all subject test score, and only one, Georgetown, requires all SATs, all ACTs, and all subject test scores. None of those who have such rules have ever acknowledged that all the other colleges seem to do fine without such rules.
@drusba thanks for the clarification! now it makes more sense.
The thing that annoys me is just that I have to pay 36$ for all of my 3 ACT score reports for only 1 school, but oh well.
@drusba What is the point in it though? You’d think they would only want the highest one because it helps their rank/stats. I just hope it doesn’t hurt you to send more than the highest.
@cappex they probably anyway use only the highest ones for the rankings.
There are probably only a handful of students that got a high score in their first sitting, so it won’t hurt us too much I guess.
How many times have you taken it?
As mentioned, they assert they use the highest scores – depending on college, either that test with highest composite or highest section scores from the mutiple tests. You can believe them or decide not to, but if you decide not to, then you have to ask the question why are you applying to a college that lies to you.
As to what is the point of their all scores rules, the original point was they had gotten all SAT scores for years before 2009 because CB always sent all scores when you ordered any sent, and they were pissed off when CB changed its policy against their recommendations. I think intially when they adopted their all scores positions, they expected lowly CB to shake in its boots and bow down to them and rescind score choice. When it refused to do so after some period of time, they went looking for a real excuse to explain their position, found one which says they need all scores to know how many times it took you to score high, a factor they can consider in admission, and now continue the practice mainly because reversing course would be an admisison that they were wrong in the first place.
As to wanting to use highest test score to help rankings, insisting on all scores does not change anything… For pupose of reporting admisison statistics, they report based on the particular socres they use for admisison for the applicants and not lower scores in other tests.
@drusba Is there any possibility of getting caught? Being realistic.