Do Colleges Look at Section Scores or Composites?

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<p>Do colleges generally look at your highest score for each section (if you take it more than once) or your highest composite? They take the highest section score for the SAT but I haven't heard anything about the ACT.</p>

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<p>I was wondering about this, too......</p>

<p>anyone know?</p>

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<p>Composite.</p>

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<p>some take your highest section scores for scholarship purposes</p>

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<p>i know Georgia Tech takes your highest score from each section and even converts ACT section scores to SAT section scores to make one score</p>

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<p>Wash U St Louis, GA Tech, and Emory are the only ones, to my knowledge that do this. Ivies and other top schools besides these ones mainly look at composite, and may look at subscores (not to combine them but just to see areas of strength/weakness).</p>

<p>I called Dartmouth and they told me ALL they look @ is composite. Brown said they mainly use composite but do look @ subscores to see the different strengths/weaknesses.</p>

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<p>...what about the essay score?</p>

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<p>Chicago says that they don't give a **** about some 30 minutes writing score...</p>

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<p>At Mines, they look at individual, particularly the math. I think the composite is irrelevant, you need a 30 on the math to be accepted I believe.</p>

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<p>I was wondering the exact same thing. I got a 30 on my last ACT, even though I thought I would end up doing reallllllly bad. My good score was mainly because I got a 35 on the English. I got a 29 on math and reading, and a 25 on science. I'm really good at science, but obviously act science just isn't my thing haha. Normally I get 32 and up on reading, but I was really doing bad on this test day. On the contrary, for math, my score went up (?) Totally surprised there.
I'm looking at Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell... etc.
Should I retake the test just to bring up my sub-scores? I could probably do better in science and definitely reading... but is it worth it? Don't know if I could get that English or Math score again. Could I just stick with the 30?
Thanks so much for your help.</p>

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<p>It couldn't hurt to retake.</p>

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<p>I'll probably end up retaking. :-X ... just a pain</p>