<p>I keep seeing the term "superscore" and I looked up the definition of that and it is where a college considers the highest subscores to calcualte a "new" comp. score. Then I looked on MIT's website and they said,
"While we do require the SAT Reasoning Test or ACT Plus Writing, we realize that some of you may also have taken older versions of these tests. In such circumstances, we will consider scores from each section of both the older and newer versions of the tests and use the highest score achieved in each section for our evaluation."</p>
<p>Forgive me if this is an obvious question, but does this mean that if I take the ACT, say twice, the first time scoring: English-32, Math-36, Reading-28, and Science-35. The second time: English-34, Math-34, Reading-35, and Science-35. Would MIT then consider me with English-34, Math-36, Reading-35, and Science-35?</p>
<p>I am aware that MIT does superscore the ACT. My question regards what the admissions officers actually see. Let’s say Student X took the ACT two times and received 34 the first time and 34 the second time. However, after superscoring, the student has a 35.</p>
<p>Do admissions officers only see the “superscored” score? (i.e. the 35)? Like, are the scores run through a computer or something so that admissions officers only see the superscored score?</p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>Do admissions officers see both scores (the first and second 34) and place more emphasis on the combined (aka “superscored”) score?</p>
<p>Someone reading the application selects the highest subscores and writes them on the application summary card. So all scores are seen, but only the highest scores are considered.</p>
<p>Did one of the MIT adcoms mention that or is that just a generalization for all schools? </p>
<p>I know some schools like JHU for example do look at each test date invididually - even though they do place more emphasis on the higher subsection scores across multiple test dates.</p>