<p>My d has a composite score of 34 on the ACT. She has a 9 on the writing. Is it possible to retake just the writing section? What impact would this have on the admissions?</p>
<p>1)what were you expecting?
2)What is the total writing score?</p>
<p>you cannot take the writing section alone.</p>
<p>momat,
Thanks for your reply. I guess she was looking for a 10 or 11, As of now she is not planning on retaking, but focusing on the SAT's. Should she just not send the ACT score to the colleges with a 9 on the writing?</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but a 34 is a really high score. I'm not sure how badly an 'average?' (might be slight above) writing score would look. It would depend on how well or poorly she does on the SAT. Some are good at one, but not the other. However, that's a score to be proud of, however, like I said before -- depending on what she wants to major in etc. I'm not sure how much weight certain colleges put on that particular section.</p>
<p>I would definitely send that in. 1 essay on an ACT isnt going to make too large of a difference. Seeing a 34 on the ACT is like 99.6 percentile, so she ought to be proud.</p>
<p>@lousyanamom...im in exactly the same situation as your daughter...i got a 34 on the act...but my essay score came out to be an 8!!...personally...im gonna send in the score anyway because im probably going in to engineering/buisiness so i should be ok...</p>
<p>Some schools don't even use the writing score. But I would definitely send a 34, even to a school that required a writing score.</p>
<p>Essay score of 9 is a good score and the total writing score could be still above 30 (depending on your english score). In my opinion, no need to retake it.</p>
<p>Her total English writing score is 32. She will not be able to retake it until Sep/Oct next year and she doesn't want to spend time on ACT as she'd rather focus on SAT prep and other ec's. Thanks to all you CC'ers for your replies.</p>
<p>Eeek. Other people are in the same situation as me.</p>
<p>I got a 35 composite and an 8 on the essay. With a 30 altogether for the English/Writing score.</p>
<p>I think I'm sending both the ACT and my SAT, since I got a 2310 on SAT [sadly with 710 on writing... and a 9 essay.]. However, I believe that colleges will see I am a good writer based on my AP English class and the essays I will write for them.</p>
<p>It's really bad -- I do badly on the essays because I can't dumb my work down enough for them. I always get 7s/8s on AP Essays (out of 9). -shrug-</p>
<p>I am the exact opposite.</p>
<p>Composite: 25
Essay: 11</p>
<p>I got the same scores as you ^</p>
<p>I have a 31 composite (35 reading, 32 english, 25 math, 30 science)</p>
<p>and an 8 on the writing. Am I happy? No.</p>
<p>I got a 31 composite......</p>
<p>freakin 6 on the essay :(</p>
<p>I got a 33 composite and a 6 on the essay. :(
I don't know what happened... I get usually get 7/8s on AP English prompts (out of 9). The only comment was that the reader wanted to see more specific examples. Is there any way to boost my essay score?</p>
<p>How much did you write for the essay? If you budget your time well, you can probably produce more than 3 pages, and it seems from peoples' scores that the more developed they are, the higher their score is.</p>
<p>I only had time to write about 1 page... but I thought the stuff I had wasn't too bad.
So, do graders prefer quantity over quality? Or which one supersedes the other?</p>
<p>dont plan...just write. Trust me. The more you write the more the essay will become developed thus, making your essay 10+</p>
<p>it worked for me...11</p>
<p>I wrote down all my premises and came up with some examples and added a few in there while I wrote but I had it set for the most part. It really helped that we were working in-depth with argument for my AP Lang & Comp course. Play at your strengths. Some people are good at improv while others such as myself succeed with a little planning.</p>
<p>I got the exact opposite (composite: 27 <em>wince</em> That science section was killer. Note to self: Do NOT sleep at 3 am the night before a big test!!; writing: 11). I wouldn't retake it and I would definitely send it in; the writing section, much like the standardized scores themselves, don't reflect the student tested AS the student. It only evaluates aptitude, whereas various other factors such as ambition, work ethic, etc. are equally, if not more, important than some test score. If your daughter has had a rigorous English workload (a 5 on an AP English course wouldn't hurt ;)), then that should easily override the less-than-excellent writing score.</p>
<p>And besides, the Writing test is the last section of the ACT w/ Writing test. By that point, most people are sick and tired of taking such a long test (which is what I'm using to justify my abysmal Science grade, not even mentioning how TIRED I was coming into it haha :)) so I'm sure your daughter could try and explain that to an admissions officer.</p>