To Send ACT Scores or Not?

Transfer Students
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I’m applying as a transfer student to some pretty selective schools with a 3.95 GPA after 2 years at a community college.

I just took the ACT in February with pretty high hopes as I was scoring a 33-34 on all my practice tests, but the actual test day did not go as planned. (Not that it matters, but I really lost track of time during the math section and it seriously upset me/threw me off for all of the following sections)

C: 29
E: 36
M: 28
R: 25
S: 25
W: 27

A few schools don’t require that I send any scores because of the number of credits I have, but some of them do mention that students who opt to send their scores fair considerably better.

Should I send my scores or not? My composite is under the average score for all of the schools that I am applying to, but I didn’t know if the fact that my score isn’t, like, a 23 or something and that I got a 36 in English could possibly help me?

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See if you can find the average act scores for each school. Basically if your 29 is around or above 50% send it, but if it is a lower percentage I probably wouldn’t. If You intend to major in English and you got a 36 in English then I would probably send it and point out that you got the 36.

3

LOL the subscores are right there. But otherwise I agree that you should see if your score lowers or raises the intended school’s average. Send it only if if raises it.