<p>I suggest taking it if you think that you might do better. The college admissions people are not saying that it is bad to take it again or that you shouldn’t take it–they are saying that the data shows that most people (this is most, not all–if you feel you could go up, you likely will!) do not go up much more after taking it twice. As some others have said, you need to weigh the pros and the cons. If you need to study many, many hours for it and that time is needed for college essays or keeping school grades up, then it is not worth it. On the other hand, if you have the time, I would take it. There is Score Choice (unless your college is one of the small list that does not let you do Score Choice), so if you bomb it this next sitting, you don’t have to send it and the colleges will never see that you even took it. However, sounds like you are pretty sure you will do better --so TAKE IT!! My son took the ACT 3 times: 32, 34,34. Did not go up on 3rd in composite, but he did move math up to 36 and brought the superscore up to 35 on that 3rd sitting, so he was glad that he did it. He did the SAT twice and jumped 100 pts and moved into the 2300+ superscore range, so he was VERY glad that he repeated it. I should add that he did study between every sitting, usually around 7 or 8 full-length (3 hr) practice tests.</p>