<p>So I received an awesome-tacular score on my last ACT. I sent it to Yale.
It was a 34 Comp (35E, 34M, 33R, 32S, 09Essay). </p>
<p>I was reading on Yale's admission website, and they say that if you send the ACT, send ALL ACT scores. And if you send the SAT, send ALL SAT scores. So I sent my previous ACT score, which was a 33 Comp. BUT this is the breakdown (35E, 31M, 33R, 31S, 06!!!!Essay). I'm not a bad writer. I just... I don't even know.</p>
<p>So now they know that I had a score of 06 on my first ACT essay. And after I sent that ACT score, I read that I could have just self-reported it on the Common App.</p>
<p>Idk, I don't know if it matters that much. I mean, I /did/ show improvement.</p>
<p>As long as the essays you submitted were good, then the 6 essay will probably just be regarded as a fluke or a bad morning. They’ll definitely take the improvement into account too. I honestly don’t see it influencing their decision at all.</p>
<p>Well even if you had just self-reported the score, you still would’ve had to tell them the essay score. So they would’ve seen it either way.</p>
<p>As for the score itself, you proved to them with the 9 that you can indeed write. As long as your essays and english grades are good, you should be fine. I had a similar problem (I got a 7 on one of my earlier acts) so I got my AP english teacher to write me a recommendation. Hopefully something like that will kill any doubts about my writing skills.</p>
<p>Plus they will look at your application essays probably a little more closely than your ACT writing score in order to judge your writing ability.</p>