Does Brown use the ACT Superscore? I have seen conflicting answers over and over… I would like a confident answer.
On PrepScholar website about Brown:
We weren’t able to find the school’s exact ACT policy, which most likely means that it does not Superscore. Regardless, you can choose your single best ACT score to send in to Brown University, so you should prep until you reach our recommended target ACT score of 34.
On Brown’s website:
For the ACT, we consider the highest scores submitted for each section; however, we do not calculate a super scored ACT Composite score.
I would assume the one on Brown’s website is most accurate. But what exactly does it mean when it says it doesn’t calculate a super-scored ACT Composite?
If I get a 36,0,0,0 first try
Then a 0 36,36 ,36 next try
Would they see a 36 composite? Also, If I take the ACT 5 times and eventually get a composite of 36, does it look bad? Does Brown just consider the 36, or would they look down upon me doing it 5 times to get it?
If you got those scores, they would consider you as having gotten a 36 on each section, but a X composite (whatever the higher of those two tests was). In general, it’s fine to take a test a few times, but more than 3 is probably going to be detrimental.
@bruno14 Thanks for the response! But I would like to clarify one thing - “but a X composite (whatever the higher of those two tests was)” What does this mean?
Who cares? Honestly, you are nitpicking a trivial issue.
If you take the ACT more than once, Brown looks at your scores and considers the highest of the bunch. So if your scores are 32, 33, 26, 31 and then 34, 29, 34, 30, the scores Brown cares about are 34, 33, 34, 31.
What Brown will NOT do is take the 34, 33, 34, 31 and calculate a composite. Why on earth should you care about that? What difference does that make if internally Brown does not recalculate the composite? Your scores are your scores and if they are good they won’t prevent you from getting accepted.
Ahh Thank you for the Clarification. But if Brown cares about the 34,33,34,31 - in your example, would they reconsider it with the fact that it was achieved over 4 tries?
Like if I get a 34,33,34,31 in 1 try and stop - as opposed to taking it 4 times and having that as a superscore - would it make a difference?
“would they reconsider it with the fact that it was achieved over 4 tries?”
I have absolutely no idea. I think it depends on what your scores were, if it was obvious that you had decent scores and you just kept taking them over and over again to improve them with only minimal results.
Why don’t you just tell us what your scores are and how many times you’ve taken the ACT and we can give you our opinion based on facts instead of hypotheticals?