Quick Score Question

<p>Hi guys,</p>

<p>I'm wondering if y'all can answer a superscoring question for me. </p>

<p>I got a 34 composite on the ACT in December 2009: </p>

<p>English - 33
Math - 34
Reading - 34
Science - 35
Essay - 10
Composite - 34</p>

<p>and I also got a 33 composite on the ACT February 2010: </p>

<p>English - 35
Math - 33
Reading - 36
Science - 29
Essay - 10
Composite - 33</p>

<p>I'm looking to send them both to schools such as Yale and Harvard, but I'm wondering two things:</p>

<p>a) Do they think I'm a terrible science student who got a 29 and fluked the first one
and
b) Is it bad that he went downhill on the next test. </p>

<p>In school, I'm an excellent humanities/social science student, but a fairly weak math/science student so wondering on your thoughts as to whether I should just send in the 34 or send in both scores for the superscored 35? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>You have to send in both scores to Harvard and Princeton… It is their policy. And no, it won’t look that bad. I don’t know why you would take it again after getting a 34…</p>

<p>I think youre fine, and if you went down, like by a point, its not horrible just showed you tried to do better and it didnt work out. But heres the bright side, you went up in Reading and English.</p>

<p>@Wizkid94, thanks, but I think some of the schools don’t have the policy so that question was targeted towards them. I still haven’t started my applications anywhere so I’m quite ignorant about the whole process haha. As for my scores, I’m a horrible optimist. I didn’t study for the first test and got a 34 so I was very pleased and told myself I’d study for the next one and get a 36, but I didn’t study for that one too, and hence my score actually went down! </p>

<p>@herozero, thanks and I think you’re right. I think with the Science section, towards the end I missed a question and continued answering without taking account of that. ie. I put down the answer to 31 in question 32 and so forth. But maybe I just got them wrong!</p>

<p>In any case, I hope they don’t think I fluked the 35. I’d be totally okay with them thinking I fluked the 29 :p</p>