I have a friend that asked me if sending in old scores and new scores will help. In the sense that (well this data will tlel you)
He and I talked and he gave me all of his act scores
The data
ACT (November (April))
Composite 17
Writing 7 This one is the best one for writing
ACT (Senior (December))
Composite 33
No Writing This one is the Best for overall composite
He took the test 5 times. One was a decrees, the rest were all increases. I’m Just giving you guys what we thought were what would make the application effective.
GPA is 3.6 (not bad) ((but lets exclude this for now)
Now my questions is this
Can he send both of these scores to colleges, with out being rejected (again this is not me, But a friend of mine). If you look at April ok writing, but horrible composite. Look at December Amazing composite, but no writing. So now what (he ask’s)?
Thank you So much guys for giving m,e your thought and have a happy holiday.
You actually raise two separate issues. Usually, when it comes to ACT, the majority of colleges use the test with the highest composite and do not hold lower scores from other tests against you, and the minority of colleges superscore the ACT, meaning they use the highest section scores from the multiple tests to determine admisison, and again do not hold lower scores against you. If that was only issdue you faced, then the bad ACT scores in the one test will not be used against you if you submit both tests…
However, you have a second issue: does the college require the writing with the ACT? If it does not require writing the same analysis as I mentioned above applies, except that it is rather pointless to even submit the first test with the\writing score because writing is an unnecessary score. If it does require writing, then the college may be like many which ignore the ACT test that has no writing and you are stuck with ther orginal test’s 17 score and that even includes a number of colleges which otherwise superscore ACT tests. Alternatively, the college may be among a minority that will consider the one without writing as long as you submit at least one test with writing, in which case the analysis in the above pargraph again applies.
So what your saying is that, if I were to send in a test (no writing), and send another test (with writing) to the schools that require the writing portion. Only the writing portion would be used, and the other test (with out the writing) would be ignored right?
What I thought I said and meant to say if the college requires writing is that the answer depends on the college: (a) many will ignore the test without writing and use only the test with writing to determine admission; (b) however, there are colleges that require writing which will actually use the better scores of the test without writing as long as you have also submitted a test with writing.
Yeah it is for a friend. I just realized I said two of mine. My bad, non of my colleges require writing except for Michigan. Thx for pointing out the mistake.
