<p>I'm an OOS white female from an incredibly competitive high school in Illinois, and I recently received my Oct. ACT score. I was hoping to raise it a point, but I ended up getting the same composite as I had the previous time. I have three options: send the first one, send this one, or send in an incomplete application minus a test score and retake in December?</p>
<p>I'm an extremely strong humanities student...math, not so much. Would it be better to send my first score, with excellent english but painful math score, or my second score, with okay english but slightly better math?</p>
<p>Hm…If you’re looking into majoring in something to do with writing, which is likely, I’d send in the first if I were you. Both are obviously very good scores, but I think that the 36 on the English would be pretty impressive, especially if you’re going to major in something like English or any major that requires writing. If you’re only going to be taking math classes in order to meet the GenEd requirements, a 27 won’t hurt you much.</p>
<p>That’s just how I’m thinking about it. Its nice to see a fellow Illinois resident on here, too.</p>
<p>Why not send both? I think I heard somewhere that the UCs don’t care how many times you take the tests. Even if they do, you’ve only taken it twice and you have the same composite score so it shouldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>I’d send the second set. Your combined English writing percentile is 99th on both sets, but the math/science is better on the second. Also, the UCs require SAT IIs. Assuming you took Literature and it was a high score, they are going to “get” that you are very good at English.</p>
<p>I’m torn between qialah’s and tmac18’s comments. The way I see it is like this:</p>
<p>score #1: bad math, but at least I set myself apart with the English score.
score #2: mediocre in both math and English (particularly if I’m selling myself on the English)</p>
<p>I know Berkeley is a formulaic numbers-type admission…I guess what I’m asking is, will the 36 make up for the 27, or is the 33/29 a safer bet overall? The bottom 25th percentile math score is 26 at Berkeley. I’m worried that 27 will screw me over, 36 or not.</p>
<p>Haha, sorry for being so obsessive. The application is just due soon and I’ve made no progress!! Is there any way I can get ahold of whatever algorithm they use??</p>
<p>^I think this is true, but nevertheless, I would send both. They will take the “higher” one, but they will know that you are capable of scoring better than 33.</p>
<p>the average I believe is a 30. Honestly, send both. Berkeley admission officers are more concerned with your personal statements than scores. They will see that you are at least capable of scoring high on the math section. It also depends on your intended major. My ACT score was at the avg but I got a 35 on the math section and I got in as an intended math major…</p>