Is essay locked to composite score?

<p>I might not have looked hard enough but i cant seem to find this out. </p>

<p>Specifcialy what i want to do is turn in the composite score from one test with the essay of a different test without showing the lower composite and lower essay. is this possible</p>

<p>btw i made this account 5 minutes ago and just realised after that last post that my name is act satan LOL</p>

<p>im wondering the same thing</p>

<p>No, essay is separate - however, they also provide another English score that includes the essay score.</p>

<p>But it shouldn't affect your composite ACT score.</p>

<p>what do you mean another english score. you mean something besides the number out of 12?</p>

<p>yes. they do a subscore sort of thing where they make a score out of your English and Writing scores.</p>

<p>so the composite is not changed regardless of the Essay score?
so if I had 36 English and then 4 Writing (hypothetically), my composite would still incorporate the 36?</p>

<p>Yes, that is correct. Your English "composite score" (the one with the English and writing combined) would be pretty low though.</p>

<p>do colleges have to see ur essay score? like is there a way to only send the composite</p>

<p>Not that I know of. If you took the ACT with writing, then they will send all components of that test. But some colleges do superscore so if you did better on the essay of one test, you could send that one in also. However, some colleges don't even look critically at the essay part (from what I've heard but I could be wrong) so unless you got a truly gruesome score, then I wouldn't worry about it.</p>