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Not certain, but obviously they look at your highest composite score taken, so they do know the difference between someone who has a 1-sitting score versus from mutiple sittings. In my Carnegie Mellon app, my highest ACT composite is shown, and then the highest subscore from each test is shown as I sent in all required scores. It’s identical to what you put into commonapp, except with no dates given.</p>
<p>^So…lets say my single sitting is a 34 C with 36,34,32,33,10E</p>
<p>and my superscored is a 34C 36,36,32,33,12E</p>
<p>I don’t understand why my subscores would matter if my superscored composite and my single sitting composite are the same.</p>
<p>Wong…in the scenario you provided,doesn’t make much difference.But look at this scenario:
32(Best Comp) with subscores superscored 34,34,35,33-11E. It does make a difference here.Even though the Comp was less,the individual section scores show the candidate in a better light than the 32 Comp would suggest.</p>
<p>Duke University superscores the ACT</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Duke doesn’t.</p>
<p>I’m going to ask my question again:
For UNC (Chapel Hill) they asked for individual highest English, Math, and Writing scores (they have an individual application, not through the common app). Does that mean they kind-of superscore (they convert to SAT then superscore from there)?</p>
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Brah, don’t worry about scores. I just got rejected from Early Decision at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>Verbal: 34 Math: 35 Sci: 34Reading: 33 Composite: 34 were mine and a 3.96 gpa without 9th grade.</p>
<p>Something tells me some other parts of your application are lacking, or you just have bad luck.</p>
<p>Some schools will accept SAT/ACT scores as part of your official HS transcript, without being sent directly from College Board/ACT. U of MD however requires that test scores come directly from College Board/ACT.</p>
<p>Do any schools actually recalculate the composite score?</p>
<p>I know for a fact that Duke does not superscore the ACT</p>
<p>UChicago does.</p>
<p>The 1st 3 on this list actually superscored my daughters ACT, thought their policies were ambiguous. </p>
<p>Duke University - Almost (They credited my daughter with a 35 when her greatest composite at one sitting was a 34)</p>
<p>For students who choose to submit the ACT with writing, Duke will consider the highest composite score and highest sub scores on each section, regardless of test date, but will not recalculate the composite score.</p>
<p>Stanford University - Yes (Ditto)</p>
<p>For the ACT, we will focus on the highest Composite score, as well as the highest Combined English/Writing score. If a student takes the ACT more than once, we will mix and match to focus on the highest Composite score and the highest Combined English/Writing Score. We will also be sensitive to individual sub-scores.</p>
<p>University of Georgia - Yes (Even their online admissions system lists my daughter as a ‘35’)</p>
<p>If a student takes the SAT or ACT more than once, we will consider the best scores we receive for each section on either exam.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt University - Almost </p>
<p>For the ACT, we note the highest composite score (i.e., we do not superscore the ACT) but we do draw out individual ACT sub-scores in our review (just not mathematically). In other words, we will see that your daughter did better on the English section of the ACT, but we will not mathematically average all of her ACT English scores (if she took the ACT multiple times for example)</p>
<p>Rice University - No
Clemson University - No
Auburn University - No</p>
<p>Another interesting note. The 1st time my daughter took the ACT she did so without the writing portion. When these were submitted to many schools, they accepted the ACT score as the highest score over her SAT and used the Writing portion of the SAT to fulfill the ‘writing’ portion of the admissions qualification.</p>
<p>Franklin and Marshall does not - they only take the highest composite score
Colgate does</p>
<p>I’ve heard people say that University of Illinois super-scores. It does not. On the FAQ of their website it explicitly states that they look at all scores sent in, but do not officially superscore.</p>
<p>Superscoring is a horrible idea, especially on the ACT where you have to move quickly to complete the whole section. What’s to prevent a student from acing, say, English and Reading the first time and then “borrowing” extra time from those sections during the second pass to focus on improving one’s Math and Science sections?</p>
<p>@Lorem You only get a set amount of time per subject area, so you will never have extra time for any given individual test on the ACT.</p>
<p>I heard Northwestern doesn’t actually superscore… can we get some kind of confirmation that it does or doesn’t?</p>
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<p>Sure, in theory, but how do they know what you’re working on? Flip to the wrong page or scribble a note to yourself about a handful of the hardest problems.</p>
<p>Guys (LoremIpsum + fisawalab), please do not discuss your opinions whether the ACT should be superscored or not. I created this thread only to post which colleges superscore and which don’t.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>-University of Kentucky superscores SATs/ACTs</p>
<p>I know someone already posted that Baylor does superscore the ACT and just thought I’d confirm that they do recalculate a new composite score. I was not aware that any schools superscored the ACT so when we visited Baylor and I was in the admissions session and the admissions rep mentioned that you should continue to send new SAT & ACT scores even after admission because they would take them for new scholarship calculation and that they superscored both, I asked what meant in terms of the ACT and she said they took the highest subscores for each section and then calculated a new composite based on that information. Which was news to me because I wasn’t aware that a school would do this. It didn’t matter w/my son, both his highest SAT and ACT were in one sitting, but it probably would have benefited my daughter 4 years ago, except I don’t think any school superscored anything back then.</p>