sending 2 ACT reports?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi I'm leaning towards sending only my latter ACT score to schools but do you think I should send both instead?</p>

<p>April 07, I had very avg on reading, and very good in the other categories and got an overall composite score of 29.</p>

<p>Oct 07, my English score dropped by one (27) and science dropped to a better-than-avg 26 (33 before), while reading and math were stellar (reading raised 9 points to a 30, math raised two). I got an overall composite of 29 again.</p>

<p>I'm thinking of sending my Oct score to schools because it's more balanced. Should I send both scores? I don't want to do this because I'm already sending in three letters of rec (most asked for only 2) and it's not too good sending in too much stuff.</p>

<p>Should I send both scores?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>bumpers10char</p>

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<p>Don't bother sending in both. The majority of schools do not superscore ACT, so they'll only look at one. I'd suggest to submit the latter (Oct 2007).</p>

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<p>I'd send both. Most schools don't superscore officially(though there are those that do), but many will 'take it into account'.</p>

<p>And that could be enough to put you over the hump at a school.</p>

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<p>thank you
by superscore, do you mean they take the best score?</p>

<p>exact stats:
april/oct
eng - 28/27
math - 32/34
rdg - 21/30
sci - 33/26
eng+writing - 26(8/12 essay)/na
composite - 29/29</p>

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<p>Superscoring takes the best subscores and combines them. BTW-most schoolsrequire the writing section, so you would have to send the other one anyway.</p>

<p>Middlebury and Rice said they can informally adjust, pretty sure Carnagie-Mellon Superscores</p>

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<p>As noted, if school requires essay portion you must send one witrh essay and most of those same schools that require essay do not accept or use ACT tests taken without the essay section.</p>

<p>Otherwise, you should probably send both. True that most colleges do not superscore ACTs. But with two 29s, they could consider either one and which one may depend on particualar college. For example, there are colleges that consider the English and math scores to be the more important of the four section scores (in fact, some, e,g, Rose-Hulman and Georgia Tech, consider only the English and math scores and ignore composite, sceince, and reading).</p>

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<p>I'm leaning towards sending only one, October's, because they might think I'm trying too hard to impress them--and too much stuff sent to them. Btw, I took the writing test for both dates, so no hassle about that. So I should send both score reports anyway? Well I'm gonna ask each school about their policy on ACT scores, if they superscore or not.</p>

<p>Here are my ACTscores again:
APRIL
eng - 28
math - 32
rdg - 21
sci - 33
eng+writing - 26(8/12 essay)
composite - 29</p>

<p>OCTOBER
eng - 27 (-1)
math - 34 (+2)
rdg - 30 (+9)
sci - 26 (-7)
eng+writing - n/a
composite - 29 (same)</p>

<p>SAT (highest) for more context:
570cr
710m
630wr</p>

<p>Thanks! :)</p>

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<p>bump10char..</p>

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<p>Once agian, if you send only one - do the one w/ writing(if you took it both times, why a n/a?), as most schools require that. But you should send both, as they offer wildly different strengths, that could benefit you very much.</p>

<p>And really, sending 2 test scores would count as downright benign on the 'over the top scale' at the absolute max.</p>

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<p>n/a because the scores just came out. they post the writing score later. </p>

<p>okay so what CC is saying is that there would be no downside to sending both those reports. </p>

<p>thanks to everyone who replied!</p>