<p>DS had the four subscores average out to 33.5 thus the composite is reported as a 34. Do adcoms regard this as a "low" 34 as opposed to someone who has a "high" 34 with an average of 34.25?</p>
<p>Also, is there a reason that adcoms superscore the SAT and consider the higher total while they typically do not recalculate a superscored ACT?</p>
<p>He would benefit only a couple subscore points if I send three test dates, but that would mean $33 per school instead of $11. That gets pretty expensive for his list of 10 applications.</p>
<p>As to fractional differences, that would be way over-thinking it. They don’t sit around comparing candidates on the basis of whether their average of the section scores was rounded up or down. </p>
<p>Two reasons many do not superscore ACT. One, unlike the SAT which is neutral on the issue, the ACT’s stated position with colleges is that the ACT should not be superscored because doing so would not reflect the student’s ability. Colleges do not have to follow that position and many do superscore but others also chose not to act counter to the ACT’s request including because they never required all ACT scores and ACT charged a fee for sending each separate ACT to any one college while SAT (before score choice) always sent all your scores whenever you ordered any score sent.</p>