You know how some colleges don’t allow you to withhold any scores for the SAT and ACT.
Regarding the ACT, how will they know if you submitted all or not? If one obviously submits any required state ACT, then there is almost no way of knowing any other tests right?
I don’t plan on dishonoring any honor codes, so don’t bash me about trying to cheat. I am simply curious because it seems like the loophole is far too large for prospective students.
I don’t know how the ACT works, but if it is anything like the SAT the website knows what their score choice policy is, and will require you to send all your scores if they require it.
I dont think they really can catch you. Right? With all this privacy stuff I think that if you don’t tell college board to release it it wont be seen. Correct me if I’m wrong.
In retrospect I’d like to know because it so happened that I was only accepted into my score-choice schools and rejected from all my non-score-choice schools. Coincidence huh?
The answer is that ACT will not reveal that you have taken another test (neither does the SAT when you exercise score choice and withhold a score). However, you need to check what your high school does. Many put all your scores on the official high school transcript that is sent to colleges.
Does this apply to SAT 2s too? If a school doesn’t allow score choice do you have to send all of your SAT 2s as well?
@coolapply
95% of the colleges including top colleges I have looking into all use superscoring, even if they require all tests for review. I assume this is because they don’t want to see applicants taking the ACT/SAT five times or something and claiming they got a great score and only sending that one in. So, the risk of dishonoring the policy is much greater than the perceived benefit IMO. I don’t know why people would do that.
@iirje
I think you only send in the SAT 2’s that you choose. I don’t think all SAT scores wanted applies to them.
You can not superscore your ACT score. You can pick and choose which ACT score you want to sent to colleges from 1 test date, but you can’t combine scores from multiple tests taken on multiple days like you can do on the SAT’s. Example - you can’t take science and writing from an Oct test date and combine it with math and reading from a Jan test date. Many colleges do allow you to do this superscoring on SATs though.
The ACT reports your scores to colleges from 1 test sitting. So, if you take multiple ACT’s, you don’t have to report all of them and can just report your best score from 1 date and colleges will never know how many times you took the test.