<p>I am sure someone has asked this before, but I am new to the site and I wanted to know if colleges and if any super score the ACT because I know a lot of them super score the SAT? I am interested in Univ. of Texas, UNC-CH, Duke, Univ of Mich,</p>
<p>None of them, to my knowledge, superscore the ACT. </p>
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<p>That is a great source blahblah … thanks.</p>
<p>Duke. Does</p>
<p>Is this really true? Can anyone back up the wonderful source that blahblah9393 gave us? This is such good news.</p>
<p>My daughter says schools may say they are super scoring the ACT for marketing purposes. It just inflates the scores of students accepted. It makes the school appear as if its students have higher scores, than they would appear if the composite was used. Hmmm…</p>
<p>Fine with me. I hope all of my daughter’s school superscore and inflate her number. She did amazing on the Feb exam, however she was one point lower than her goal. Her superscore between Feb and Oct reaches her goal. I have called the majority of the schools on her list and half say they will superscore in some fashion.</p>
<p>She has to take it again with the state in April, however it will not be with the writing section since ou lawmakers thought it was a great idea to cancel that section and save money. Thus she is viewing that test as useless since she will need to rely on superscoring between her tests if she does better in April. I have also registered her for June. I hope by then that will be it for her. I really dont want her to take as a senior so that she can just focus on enjoying her last year of high school.</p>
<p>Lacrosse Mom - My daughter is in the same boat. However, when she takes the test for the third time in April it will include the writing portion. We have spent a small fortune on test prep not to mention all of the time she has spent on studying/prepping. Heavy sigh. I wish all the kids the best of luck in April.</p>
<p>@blahblah9393: I would just like to point out that Brown University and Boston University both do an alternate form of superscoring, which is just as effective. They look at the highest components of your separate scores, either for ACT or SAT, from your multiple tests, but they do not compile them into a composite score. Composite scores are just a way for colleges to have a easier time selecting students, so for schools like Brown or MIT, they select students regardless of that composite score a student might desire to show.</p>
<p>Hope that clears up some doubt for some people.</p>
<p>I am currently doing research into schools that I’m interested, and if I find any other colleges or universities that superscore, I will notify everyone.</p>
<p>Lacrossemom ~ We are in the same boat w/the April test that is going to be given through my daughter’s high school, no writing portion. I really think it is unfair to the kids. I wish they would have given us the option of paying for the writing portion ourselves, so that way the kids would still have that option if they wanted it. The April test isn’t completely a wash though. If they score well on that particular test, it can still be sent to colleges along w/another test that does have the writing portion. Say they take a test w/the writing portion and score a 31, but score higher than that on the one in April through their high school, I would hope that colleges would look at that and take it into consideration. My daughter is taking the test on April 14th and the one in June as well. I hope she scores what she needs on one of those tests so that she doesn’t have to retake it in September and/or October. I just want her to be able to enjoy her summer and the start of her senior year w/out all the ACT stress. I just can’t wait for the day that she can put this test behind her!</p>
<p>Ladyham- completely agree. My D still has not studied for April. I think she will just focus on June and hopefully that will be it. </p>
<p>Good news is that now she is interested in a college that does superscore so we shall see. After all of the rejections a few days ago, i am getting nervous for next year of where she will go.</p>
<p>Lacrossemom ~ My daughter has been able to put a little bit of time into studying for the one in April. It seems to be helping her taking practice tests. This Friday, the kids are off school for Good Friday, so she is going to take a practice test at home that day. Then on Saturday, she has a practice test through her prep class, the last practice exam she will have through them. I like those practice tests that she takes through her prep class because they really mimic the conditions of the real test. Maybe your daughter can get a little bit of practice time in this weekend to prepare for the following week’s test? Even after the test on the 14th, we are going to have our daughter take practice tests almost every weekend to help her prepare for not only the one through her high school, but the one she has to take in June as well. We don’t want her to lose any progress she has made w/practicing thus far. I have not heard about a lot of rejections. Is there a particular school that had a lot of rejections? Were the kids deferred first? Did they have good qualifications and then still got rejected? I am a little bit nervous for next year as well because my daughter wants to go to a Big 10 school and major in engineering. Her GPA is awesome, so it is just basically going to come down w/her doing very well on this test, as high into the 30’s as she can get.</p>
<p>Underratedmahn ~ There does seem to be a lot of people that get very high scores on the ACT test on this site. Don’t know if that is exaggerated or not. It could be that this site just draws in people that are highly motivated to getting into a good college or it could be people are misreporting their scores. In either case, there is very good information to be had here in terms of what you need to do in order to do well on the ACT test, as well as a lot of other good information on other topics, too. Everything you read on the internet should be taken w/a grain of salt. Use what you need and what will help you, and throw away the rest.</p>
<p>Lacrossemom ~ I also wanted to add that in terms of taking the practice tests, what I think is really helping is going over the questions that our daughter is missing and then helping her figure out what she did wrong and how she can answer a similar question the correct way on a future test. This has really helped in English and Math. In English, also going over grammar rules has helped her a ton. She was having trouble w/commas vs. semicolons and also using who vs whom. I found a few websites that went over those particular rules, and with reviewing them, it is helping her on the English portion. Google has definitely been my best friend lately! With math, just going over the the questions she is getting wrong is helping her on all her subsequent tests. The problems aren’t the same necessarily, but the concepts are. With reading and science, I think just taking the practice tests is getting her used to the format, timing, and pacing of the tests. The best advice that I received here on CC has been to practice, practice, practice. Practice as much as you can and then practice some more!</p>
<p>@carltonb17 where did you hear this from? I sure hope this is true!</p>
<p>Ladyham - rejections for Ivy schools and top 20 schools. Will probably have her study this weekend, but that will be it. She has 4 ap classes and is swamped with preparing for them.</p>
<p>Does anyone know whether schools that super score the ACT totally disregard the lower individual scores submitted? This could be done by a computer program selecting the highest individual scores submitted, or by someone manually who doesn’t get involved in the decision process. If admissions officers see the lower scores, then it might be hard for them to exclude this data from their decision process, and could be like a judge telling a jury to “disregard evidence that was just presented because it was not relevant or valid”.</p>
<p>When you report scores to a college, can you report scores from two different test dates if you improved in a certain subject? I am wondering even if they don’t superscore it.</p>
<p>For instance on test day number one, you get a 32 in english and a 28 in math.
On test day number two you get a 30 english and 32 in math.</p>
<p>Could you report both test dates to the school and have them take both the 32 in english and in math? I am interested in doing this just to affect individual scores, not the composite score. I don’t know if this is considered superscoring or not as the composite score isnt changing.</p>
<p>My main worry is that when I take the ACT again, I will improve in some areas and get worse in others. I am not super stellar at English but I got a good score on one test date. I want to be able to utilize that score will also improving on the other sections.</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>Thirdplanet - yes. Look at the latest common application. It asks for your best individual score and best composite. Some schools superscore, however the majority do not.</p>
<p>Unless you are applying to extremely competitive schools that require all exams, you should take again.</p>
<p>Check out this link for a list of schools that superscore the ACT.</p>
<p>[Colleges</a> that superscore the ACT College Admissions Counseling](<a href=“http://www.collegeadmissionspartners.com/college-testing/colleges-superscore-act/]Colleges”>Colleges that superscore the ACT - BS/MD Admissions by College Admissions Partners)</p>