<p>I took the ACT in 7th grade once, and of course I did horribly on it. The Common App gives me three dates to put them in and I've taken them twice since Junior year...So am I supposed to add the one I took in 7th grade too???</p>
<p>In most cases, no. Some selective schools have a “submit all test scores” policy but it’s unlikely they want to see anything before high school. If you are applying to a “submit all test scores” school it’s worth a call to the admissions office for a definitive answer.</p>
<p>Also remember that what you put down on the Common App isn’t “official”. Most schools only accept scores that are sent directly from the ACT.</p>
<p>Why did you take the ACT in gr 7 O.o</p>
<p>No. Is it visible to you when you logon to the ACT site?</p>
<p>Collegeboard wipes out all your scores the moment you enter 9th grade. Not certain about ACT.</p>
<p>The three choice dates are to allow you to superscore in Commonapp, not to portray you in bad light. You can have all your scores from a single date if you want.
There are some colleges that want you to report all tests taken. However, none want to know about tests taken before 9th.</p>
<p>my son also took the act in 7th grade. It is part of the Duke Talented program. He got a 24. we did not put it on his application. Only the high school ones.</p>
<p>What about if the scores are saved? My son took the SAT in 7th (to qualify for a program and to gain entry as an audit student at a local univ.) and in 8th (through CTY talent search). We saved both scores because, at the time, son was considering applying to college several years early. The scores do show up on the College Board account. Should he list them even though they were taken before high school? Should he just pick one of his schools and ask them and assume the others have the same policy or should he contact each one?</p>
<p>If you do best on your HS SATs I don’t see the point in sending middle schools scores. If your S or you took ACT/SAT in 7th for a special program and qualified it’s obvious that a certain score was achieved, no?</p>
<p>You want to show your best possible scores.</p>
<p>I just want to make sure it’s not <em>required</em> that he report these scores.</p>
<p>sbjdorlo - how were they saved?</p>
<p>If your collegeboard status is upto date, i.e., if you update the status to show he is in 12th grade or whatever he is in now, it should disappear.</p>
<p>Either way, they are not supposed to be relevant if they were taken before high school irrespective of the reasoning behind saving them. There are only some top schools that require you to send all tests taken and even they don’t expect anything before high school. If you read commonapp, they require anything you list to start in 9th grade. Why should this be any different.</p>
<p>You can try a simple test. Pick a school and try to trigger the score to them. Then check on what all scores pop up in the report that you are allowed to edit for score choice.</p>
<p>I requested that they be saved by emailing (mailing? Calling? Can’t remember) the contact person and receiving confirmation that they would be saved. They’ve already been sent to certain colleges and they definitely appear in the list of tests in my son’s account. On the list of tests that my son receives each time he takes the test, the scores show up as something like “<9th grade”. Apparently, saved scores show up just like any other score.</p>
<p>i guess it is upto you now on how to handle it. You can ask collegeboard to wipe them out same way you asked to save them or remove them from being sent when you are submitting them to colleges.</p>
<p>Hmm, that’s a good idea. I never thought of that! Ha! Thanks for the suggestion, texaspg. I’ll see if that’s an option. It might not be, right? Since kids can’t wipe out their scores from high school, they might view these the same way. Worth investigating…</p>