<p>Ok, I took the ACT in June for the first time with little prep. My dad signed me up for the ACT and saw you can send colleges scores for free before-hand without letting me know this until I saw my scores. Well, they were very horrible and I'm super embarrassed to say what I got. Basically, my problem was timing and I only finished 1 section....</p>
<p>So for example my dad sent it to all of my state schools and Emory....</p>
<p>I'm applying ED 2 Emory and my dad sent the score from that without knowing the score. Emory said they take your best ACT score. Do they mean the best of what you submitted? </p>
<p>Since July I have been working my a_ss off with correctness and timing and lately I have been scoring a composite score in the range of 28-32 now.</p>
<p>I totally fixed my previous timing issue. </p>
<p>Next time I take it I expect a score in that range. By submitting this score and them saying they tIe the best score in the application process, will they still judge me from the previous and first horrible score I got. </p>
<p>I know they said they take your best score, but because my dad submitted it without knowing over the summer I am scared this is going to screw me over in the decision process....</p>
<p>I'm applying to other private schools and Emory is my #1 choice and I actually just flew in yesterday and visited the campus today.</p>
<p>Am I worrying for nothing? Or should I be worried?</p>
<p>The college really will take your best score, and ignore the others. When your file is being processed, a “lowly” clerk will enter your best score, GPA, rank, etc, onto a short form which adcoms will look at. They don’t have time to search your every test score.</p>
<p>So, no. Don’t worry, just put your efforts into the next test sitting, and good luck!</p>
<p>Your sure of this right? This is at all schools? I mean my score was really bad… And I improved so much and since the score was actually already sent to them, I was afraid they already put it in their records?</p>
<p>Ok, when you sign up for the ACT, they give you 5 colleges you can send your score to for free? My dad did this without telling me and sent it to my top chocie Emory and few others. So right now do they have a file on me with that score? or when I actually send in my application with the new score, it will be like the horrible score never existed and they won’t judge it at all like you said, they will just delete the past score and put in the new score before they review my application?</p>
<p>Different schools have different policies about taking the highest score. You’ll have to check their websites, or call their admissions offices to double-check. </p>
<p>As fauve said, when a school says they’ll take the highest score, they’ll really take the highest score.</p>
<p>At some schools the highest ACT score or the superscored SAT is the only one the application readers ever see. Before the apps are read, an admin person superscores and puts only the superscore info on the report that is read by the adcom. A similar process also can take place with transcripts, where an admin person might summarize a student’s grades and rigor in core classes before passing the file on to the reader.</p>