do colleges know when ACT score is superscored or from a single sitting?
please let me know
Superscoring is done by the college, so yes they know.
You mention BC on another thread, so you can look at what they say:
http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/freshman/faq.html
As noted above the college does the superscoring, not ACT. Also note that many colleges do not superscore ACT. Generally a college will list it’s policies on the website.
Most colleges require you to send scores directly from the testing agencies so it would be obvious if you have sent scores from multiple test dates. If the school allows self reporting, they ask for the test date that you achieved the score, so again, it would be obvious if you used scores from more than one test. I think if they accept you and you decide to attend, you are required to follow up with the official scores from the testing agency even at schools that allow self reporting.
This isn’t what you asked, but my understanding is that while most colleges allow superscoring of SAT scores, they don’t always allow it with ACT scores so I would check what the policy is at the schools you are interested in.
do you think i should retake the act if my one sitting composite is bad but superscore is good?
It depends upon the colleges targeted. if they all superscore, then I would say no. If one or more of them do not, and you feel your one-sitting composites do not show you in the best light, then yes.
will colleges view a great score in one sitting very differently than a great score superscored or does it not matter.
IMO, if it mattered, they would not superscore. Unless a college out-and-out tells you that one is better than they other, it’s just speculation.
okay thanx!!!
Here’s something I don’t understand about superscoring. Many schools will superscore the SAT but not the ACT. Is there something in the very structure of the ACT that makes superscoring that test different than superscoring the SAT? Or are the admissions officers just lazy and are only willing to add together 2 numbers from 2 different SAT’s, but are unwilling to add together 4 numbers from however many ACT’s are taken?
idk either. i honestly think that they should superscore act more bc its hard to do well on all 4 sections in one sitting…instead of 2
@futurenursep Only thing I have come up with is that maybe ACT has determined that its composite score across the 4 sections in a single sitting is the optimal and most reliable testing output, and has indicated as such to the colleges. But even then, this is the first time I even knew that some colleges superscore the ACT as well.
I sure wish schools like University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University would superscore the ACT. I’d have a 35 superscored vs. the 33 I’m stuck on.