<p>My D will take the ACT for the fourth time this weekend. She is trying to increase her score by a few points. Several of the colleges she is considering ask students to send ALL test scores. Does it reflect badly on her that she took the ACT so many times?</p>
<p>It seems like if anything it would look good. Constantly trying to better yourself looks admirable, wouldn’t you agree?</p>
<p>The perseverance, determination and hard work my daughter has put forth makes me so so proud.</p>
<p>Don’t take more than four as it won’t make a difference.</p>
<p>Also, you permanently delete test date records you don’t want (the only benefit in taking the ACT):
<a href=“http://www.actstudent.org/faq/answers/delete.html[/url]”>http://www.actstudent.org/faq/answers/delete.html</a></p>
<p>Hmmm…deleting test scores that sounds like a good idea, but how does that jive with the colleges request to send all test scores? Is it ethical/honest to send only the best score knowing that you took the test multiple times deleting the lower scores? Am I over thinking this?</p>
<p>Im amazed that someone would want to take a 5 hour test for the fourth time. I’m taking the ACT this weekend for the first time. Regardless of what I get on it and he SAT I took on Sat., I’m done with colleges entrance exams.</p>
<p>Most colleges think you are score obsessed. I would say 4 looks okay, as long as the score increases. But I wouldn’t do more than that.</p>
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I’m not sure what ethics have to do with this.</p>
<p>Whether it is honest or not is up to your interpretation of what sending all score means, but it’s clear that non-existent scores cannot be sent to colleges because they don’t exist and these score are treated equivalently to tests taken before 9th grade (can’t be sent or seen), talent search scores which you do not have to send, or scores canceled on the day of the test (which cannot be sent either, though the ACT allows you to cancel them at any point afterward apparently as stated by the FAQ).</p>
<p>You can delete your scores, and I’m surprised more people don’t know about this for the ACT. It’s basically ACT’s way of saying to colleges - “this is our version of score choice, when students take the ACT, they have complete power over their scores.”</p>
<p>The option of deleting is a great feature of ACT. I had my DD and my DS take during 9th and 10th grade just as a benchmark w/o writing to get them accustomed to taking the test. The all tests thing was only asked by one school for DS and he didnt get in anyway since it was a long shot. For DS, I plan to delete those earlier grades and just show the tests as a junior.</p>
<p>I am hoping her trend increase continues through to this Saturday’s test. She hasn’t practiced or studied at all. She is still tired from finals and her four AP exams. I will give her one more “relaxing” day and then she really needs to start preparing.</p>
<p>Good luck with your DD on Saturday. Don’t worry about the ALL tests by just deleting it from the ACT directly and ensuring that the school removes it from the transcript.</p>
<p>I mentioned the option of deleting a ACT test score to my daughter today. She was so relieved. She said, “Thank god for those neurotic cc parents out there.”</p>
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I wouldn’t describe it as “relieving”, as it is somewhat of a loophole, in that you skirt around the boundaries of score choice and sending all existent test scores in your record.</p>
<p>You can justify using it by noting that “all scores” would, by interpretation, refer to scores that you can claim as yours as noted by an official score keeper (the ACT Inc.). The scores that you can prove are yours are the scores that exist in your test file record; colleges do not take your word for what is yours, only ACT’s word (official score). Once you delete a score, it does not exist in your test file record, meaning that you cannot prove that it is your score, and since it doesn’t exist on record anymore, it is comparable to any other non-existent piece of data that is not your own. Therefore if you send all existing scores in your record, you are complying with the all score policy.</p>
<p>Anyway, regardless of how you feel, there’s no way anyone can ever know at the end of the day (check your high school transcript though). Every person who takes the ACT can use this policy and it will never cause him/her a problem; if a college inquires about score “A”, you can say that score “A” does not exist in your score record, which is not problematic at all.</p>
<p>All this lovely verbiage just means lying. All scores means all scores.</p>
<p>^How can you send a score that doesn’t exist?</p>
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<p>False. You are not allowed to send scores before 9th grade; you couldn’t if you wanted to. This contradicts your definition of all scores. In addition, you cannot send scores that you cancel because you cannot send them even if you wanted to (and this is a completely valid action as it has been an option on the SAT for a very long time now). This contradicts your definition once again. Furthermore, many colleges ask you to not send scores taken for talent searches which is also contradictory. Noting these contradictions, it is clear that your definition of all scores is not the correct definition.</p>
<p>All scores means all of your existing scores in your test file record. This definition agrees with the above statements and indicates that if you send all scores in your test file record, you have satisfied the condition above. </p>
<p>[SAT</a> Reasoning Test - Canceling SAT Scores](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/cancel]SAT”>Canceling Your Scores – SAT Suite | College Board)
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<p>This has been around for a long time and no one disputes that this is completely OKAY to do. Assuming the same rule holds for the ACT, deleting scores for the ACT also holds as a completely OKAY action to do, as given on ACT’s website: [ACT</a> FAQ : How do I delete a test date record?](<a href=“http://www.actstudent.org/faq/answers/delete.html]ACT”>ACT Registration | ACT Testing Dates | The ACT Test). (nowhere on any college website does it state that score cancellation only holds for the SAT, so it is fair to assume the same action holds for the ACT as well)
The difference is that ACT Inc. does not give a time specification to cancel scores and the Collegeboard does. Both options are okay and there is no “lying”, unless you consider score cancellation a form of lying.</p>
<p>Where does the OP state any of the scores were accomplished before 9th grade??</p>
<p>Where does it state the OP canceled scores before the test was scored??</p>
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<p>There’s no explicit message stated for the two cases above either (especially not the second), but it’s accepted that you don’t need to send said scores because they’re not in your record. Same idea applies to score canceling on the ACT, in which the score is not in your record. Time period of canceling a score is irrelevant because the ACT does not indicate a time period.</p>
<p>Bumpity bumpity bumpity</p>