will taking ACT 3 times look crazy to admissions officer?

Test Preparation
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<p>Our school (urban, public, 67% poor) has a new push on to get kids to take ACT, and will pay for the test. Daughter took it twice as jr and wants to take it again....she got 27 (was sick and left for bathroom during one section) and got a 30 when she retook in March. Her SAT is 2060 on one try, she wants to do that again, too - though not free. </p>

<p>Our school puts all scores on transcripts, so if she takes it again, and has 3 ACT scores, plus 2 SAT scores, how will college app people respond? I am concerned she is going overboard just cause of the pressure from the school people.</p>

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<p>If she doesn't put her high school code on her ACT registration, they won't get it and so cannot put it on her transcript. (Is there no way you can ask to have them removed from the transcript? At my d's school you could.) So she can take it a third time without anyone knowing, unless she decides to send the third score. Should be OK.</p>

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<p>My son took it as part of a TAG program in 7th and 9th grades, then didn't code on the high school until 11th grade, so his 36 is all they got. I think it helped his score to have taken it several times before.</p>

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<p>First you would have to find out if any college admission office even cares that a student who took the ACT once or twice before as a junior (or younger student) decides to take it, with high school encouragement, once more as a senior. I rather doubt that this is a problem at all. </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=4198038&postcount=1&lt;/a> </p>

<p>There are abundant opportunities to meet college admission officers all over the country at this time of year </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=389153%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=389153&lt;/a> </p>

<p>so if you are really worried about this there is the chance to ask college admission officers what they think about the described situation. </p>

<p>Good luck in this year's admission season.</p>

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<p>Thanks for responses - I will ask if our school can leave the scores off, and if they can't I won't sweat it.<br>
I think its dumb that our school's practice negates the "pick and choose your best scores" advantage which the ACT seems to offer, but honestly, around here, historically, most people have only taken it once. She should do better this time anyway, and we can be smart about where we send the scores.<br>
Tokenadult, your lists in reference posts are great - all college fairs are at least an hour from us, we went to one last year (the Chicago, Brown, Cornell, Rice, Columbia one) and felt it was a good intro to the process. I'll pass your list on to others...</p>

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<p>mamafish:</p>

<p>You might also inquire why your HS spends the time and resources to put the scores ON the transcript... :)</p>