<p>Can you superscore on the act? or can you only use one test?</p>
<p>Most colleges will NOT let you take the "superscore" of multiple ACT admins, but they will "superscore" the SAT.</p>
<p>Check with the colleges you are applying to, some do superscore the ACT, but not most.</p>
<p>Do you know of the schools that allow you to superscoer ACT's?</p>
<p>I dont know of them offhand, but your college counselor at school should know, or at least be able to find out.</p>
<p>Colleges give you the benefit of your best scores, section by section, for either brand name of test in most cases. A known exception is the UC system, which expects to rank applicants by single-sitting scores. Any college will treat you the same way it treats all other applicants--so if you get an advantage, maybe some other applicants do too. </p>
<p>Harvard's policy </p>
<p>is an example: "We consider a student's best test scores."</p>
<p>If an applicant has aberrant SAT scores then a "superscoring" college would look more closely into the entire score report and use all the information that's there to check whether the superscoring makes sense. </p>
<p>For example, if you take the SAT 3 times, get all 500s, then all 700s, then all 500s (will the real SAT score please stand up?), you can be sure that somebody at Harvard admissions will do more than just mechanically copy down the 700's and ignore the rest.</p>
<p>How can you be sure?</p>
<p>One of the dozen reasons to be sure is that admissions people have said so on this bulletin board and in print.</p>
<p>Another is that not a single [superscoring] university in the United States has ever stated that it treats applications with a combination of SAT scores as though the below-highest scores were nonexistent (that is, identically to a hypothetical application where there was only one sitting for each test taken and the scores obtained were the "superscore" of the original). I can believe that this might actually be the practice at places where SAT scores don't matter much, such as community colleges or the handful of colleges where test scores are optional. But at any place with a real selection process there is certainly the potential for the extra information to be used if it stands out as being relevant.</p>
<p>Can someone please write down a list for Schools that super scores ACTs.</p>
<p>I think the other kind of college where this might matter the least is the kind of college where one has to go far beyond just getting a high SAT score to get in. That's based on my interaction with college admission officers who speak in my town, mostly from those colleges. Recruited athletes, developmental admits, legacies, Intel winners, debate champions, etc., might have a bad day on the SAT (or ACT) and it might not matter at all as long as they have one clear-the-threshold score on the same test. </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=295958%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=295958</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=295954%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=295954</a> </p>
<p>For the individual applicant, I think the most crucial thing to do is not to worry about this too much. By all means prepare well for every standardized test you take, and definitely do much more than rely on test scores to establish a dossier for being admitted to your top-choice school. But as long as every highly selective school </p>
<p>a) admits some applicants with less-than-peak test scores, and </p>
<p>b) rejects some applicants who do have peak test scores, </p>
<p>it seems counterproductive to obsess about test scores. (Many applicants to elite colleges have parents who come from countries in which test scores are the main factor, and possibly the only factor, that matters in college admission. The United States is not one of those countries.) As I noted above in this thread, whatever a college's policies are about superscoring, they apply to all applicants with more than one set of scores. An applicant with one set (or even two sets) of previous low scores might just as well retake, if that is what is most amenable to change in that applicant's admission dossier, but should be sure not to worry about this so much that the applicant loses sleep the night before the test. Worry probably wrecks an application more than one or two instances of nonpeak test scores.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a list of schools that do not superscore the SAT.</p>
<p>State universities generally consider SAT I scores sitting by sitting.</p>
<p>are u sure thats true tokenadult?</p>
<p>I imagine there are exceptions (that is, state universities that consider scores section by section), but the notable example of state universities considering single-sitting scores is the U of California system. Check Michigan and see what it's current practice is.</p>