<p>Hi I am looking to apply to Stanford and Duke this fall. I recently got back my ACT score report for June and I did good on the math, writing, and science sections but I bombed the reading. My ACT from April had a higher reading score, but lower everything else. For admissions, does anyone know if these schools take the highest subject score from all the tests you've taken, or if they only take your highest composite score from one test date? Basically could I combine the two test date scores to come with an overall higher composite score?</p>
<p>you're talking about a superscore, 1% of schools in the nation do that, I don't think stanford and duke superscore your act.</p>
<p>thanks for replying billbank</p>
<p>however, i have one question based on this. if schools like stanford don't superscore the act, then why on stanford's application for the next school year does it allow you to submit multiple act scores? wouldn't it be pointless to submit any extras if the highest composite score is all the college looks at?</p>
<p>interesting question, but I'm sending both of my scores because I didn't take the writing portion on the ACT I did better on.</p>
<p>The only school that I am aware of that says that they "superscore" the ACT is Washington U in St. Louis.</p>
<p>Where do they say this?</p>
<p>Interesting. I looked up this question on WUSTL about a month ago in relation to this claim on another thread and found the answer (Yes) with no problem. Now it does not even say if they superscore the SAT (which I am sure they do).</p>
<p>I recently asked a variety of my college choices the same question, and mit submitted this response</p>
<p>"Provided you take the ACT with writing, we will only consider the highest scores from each
individual section. This is also true if you take both the SAT and the ACT. If you score higher on
the ACT in math, and higher on the verbal SAT, we will take the highest of the individual scores."</p>
<p>I cannot confirm that all colleges state this, but a lot of them say that they "will only consider the highest scores from each individual section." This means that they do superscore, doesn't it?</p>