<p>Perhaps there is someone on College Confidential who could shed some light on what, to me, seems to be a big question that must have a big history. </p>
<p>What is the difference, in terms of test structure and function, of super-scoring the SAT and ACT? Why do (at least it seams) most colleges and universities offer a SAT score choice, but no similar option for the ACT.</p>
<p>If I am unclear, please let me know, but this concept boggles my mind. If an institution believes in the concept of super-scoring, why isn't it applicable to all tests? </p>
<p>ACT Inc. hasn’t condoned superscoring of the ACT until recently. Also there’s no easy way to send in one’s whole record, so instead colleges just take the highest ACT composite and don’t superscore.</p>
<p>Most private universities supersocre SAT but only a minority the ACT. However, vast majority of public universities do not superscore either. So it is a misconception to assume that superscoring of SAT is universal.</p>
<p>College Board has always allowed a student to send all SAT scores he has to a college in one send and for one fee per college, or free when you use the free sends on the test application. It adopted score choice a couple years ago so the student can prevent some scores from being sent but the default position is still to automatically send all current and past scores.</p>
<p>Many years ago that precess led to some colleges and then many to begin superscoring the SAT. That provided some benefit to applicants who could have a higher score by superscoring but part of the reason colleges did it was to raise their ranges of SAT scores for purposes of the USNews ranking system.</p>
<p>For the ACT there was a significant barrier to doing that: cost to the student. When you order an ACT test sent to a college, you can send only one test per order, either for a fee or as a free send on the application for the test. There is no score choice because you never have a choice of sending more than one score. To send a second test score to a college you have to pay another fee. Because a student has to pay multiple fees to send multiple tests, most colleges did not adopt superscoring for the ACT.</p>