I have a 34 Composite and a 35 Superscore, but honestly superscore just seems worse than single sitting…How is it percieved by college admissions? Would a student with a 35 Superscore and 35 single sitting be viewed as equal if everything else was held constant? Thanks in advance for your answers.
Most schools don’t superscore ACT. Most do superscore SAT. Check the schools you are interested in.
Yeah I did check, assuming that the schools i’m interested in Superscore ACT is it different than single sitting?
How many times did u take it? Twice? @worcester22
yes
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Does someone happen to have the key to get out of jail? I see the keyhole
When admissions is done by holistic subjective reading, then a reader may look slightly more favorably on a single sitting score than on the same score as a super score. If the score is just plugged into a formula or compared against a threshold, it does not matter, although a college may choose to use only the highest single sitting score or a super score depending on its policy.
For example, the California State Universities (not the Universities of California) super score the ACT or SAT and plug the result into a formula that is its eligibility index that is used to rank order applicants to campuses and majors. The Universities of California require all scores and mainly use the best single sitting score in holistic subjective reading (though they tend to emphasize HS GPA more than test scores).
If a school superscores, they don’t care whether it was a achieved in a single sitting; it they don’t superstore, then it matters. There is no difference in the application to an ACT or SAT and yes many, many schools, including many, many elite schools, superscore both.
Ok thanks!
Makes sense. I know that UChicago, WUSTL, and JHU superscore ACT
…If it makes you feel any better…one point will not be the difference between a rejection and a acceptance. A 34 is very similar to a 35.
Schools superscore as a way to increase their admissions statistics. The admissions process is too complicated to keep track of multiple views of the same test’s scoring. It’s possible the readers might notice, but I can’t imagine single sitting / superscore would impact a decision.