I took ACT with Writing a couple of months ago. I plan to take it again next month without the writing portion. When I use the score choice to send my highest subsections, can I use the scores from both test dates? How will it the score report show up as: act with writing or act (no writing)?
I don’t think you can send the highest subsections. I think you can choose the your best test date but all subscores from that date will go out. Alternatively, you can send both dates to schools that superscore. If your schools require the essay and not many do, you will have to send the date with the essay or both dates.
ACT has no score choice. You can send only one test per order and must send the entire report on that test, i.e., you cannot withold section scores. If you want to send a second test to a college, you have to make a new order.
SAT is subject to score choice. Whenever you order any SAT test sent to a college, College Board automatically sends all scores from all SAT tests it has for you uness you specifically exercise score choice and choose to withhold a particular test or tests. However, even for SAT you cannot withhold part of a test, so for any test you do send, all the section scores for that test get sent.
If you send an ACT with writing and one without writing to a college that normally requires the writing, then to determine what the college actually does in that situaiton will require you to contact each particular college because, for the most most, colleges that require writing do not tell you on their sites what they do if you send one without writing and one with. Some use the one without writing if it is the higher score or they superscore the two tests but some will not use the one without writing at all even if they otherwise superscore tests.