should i retake?

<p>I got a 34 composite on my first time taking the ACT last september. I'm planning on applying to schools like stanford, uc-berkeley, uchicago, as well as usc, carnegie mellon, u of minn-twin cities, and u of wis-madison.</p>

<p>English: 32
Math: 36
Reading: 33
Science: 35
Essay: 8
English/writing combined: 29</p>

<p>So should i retake the ACT? and if i should retake it, which section should i focus the most on improving?</p>

<p>you don’t need to retake it to necesarrily get into those schools, but it wouldn’t hurt to try to raise that english score as you could easily get a 35 compostie with the rest of your scores. And english is one of the easiest to improve is it requires mostly just memorizing the grammar rules and such. Try it out!</p>