<p>SSIA</p>
<p>My dad is convinced that no school will take your best score from each individual section.</p>
<p>Most colleges take your best score section by section. Harvard specifically does, as does MIT. The single-sitting rule is more a characteristic of state colleges (notably the UC system).</p>
<p>all colleges that i know take the best score from each section</p>
<p>of course, that does not mean that colleges completely ignore previous scores that also get sent with the College Board scores report</p>
<p>ie if someone gets a 2250+ in one try, or three tries
plus other instances....</p>
<p>All ivies, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Hopkins, Tufts, etc., etc., and majority of colleges use best subscores from multiple tests. UCs, UIUC, and many other state colleges use that test with your highest composite score even though you may have a higher score in a section on another test.</p>
<p>they want to be able to tell us news that they have a high sat average so they'll take ur highest</p>
<p>Why don't they do it for ACT as well. I've never understood that.</p>
<p>Most of the most selective colleges DO take your highest score section by section for ALL tests, the ACT included.</p>
<p>From MIT: </p>
<p>"While we do require the SAT Reasoning Test or ACT Plus Writing, we realize that some of you may also have taken older versions of these tests. In such circumstances, we will consider scores from each section of both the older and newer versions of the tests and use the highest score achieved in each section for our evaluation."</p>
<p>From Harvard: </p>
<p>"Harvard requires applicants to submit the results of either the SAT Reasoning Test or the ACT with writing component. </p>
<p>. . . </p>
<p>We consider a student's best test scores . . . ." </p>
<p>Does anyone have another example?</p>
<p>I just hope that the OP has some reasonable "other" criteria for measuring fit than whether a school totals the test scores a certain way.</p>
<p>Schools that take the highest subscores for each section from multiple ACT sittings: U Miami, USD, USC. Also remember with the ACT you can choose which sittings you want to send, unlike the SAT.
As others have said, UC's will only take the highest single sitting scores..that seems to be the exception though.</p>
<p>when schools post their middle 50% scores, I've wondered if those are combined or single sitting scores?</p>
<p>I just hope that the OP has some reasonable "other" criteria for measuring fit than whether a school totals the test scores a certain way.</p>
<p>i was thinking the same thing.....</p>
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<p>The Common Data Set methodology for surveying colleges already asks for scores section by section. Presumably, each college reports for each enrolled student what appears on that student's admissions file, and thus single-sitting colleges report single-sitting scores, while section-by-section colleges report the best score on each section that the college was told about by the applicant.</p>
<p>california schools, michigan state take one sitting. almost all others mix and match</p>
<p>has anyone been able to confirm if the Ivies combine (or not) your best sub-scores from multiple sittings on the ACT?</p>
<p>Read post #9.</p>
<p>Yeah, but does Harvard's consideration for "best scores" mean best single-sitting scores, or best subsection scores from multiple sittings? </p>
<p>It makes a big difference</p>
<p>I know WashU takes best sub-scores from ACT</p>
<p>@ post #17: Is there really any doubt about what the Harvard statement means, in its own terms? But I know for sure what it means, because I have attended Harvard information meetings as part of the Exploring College Options road show, and Harvard really means that it gives you (and all other applicants) the benefit of your best scores on any kind of accepted admission test, section by section. </p>
<p>Has anyone found any CONTRARY statement on any Ivy League college Web site?</p>