<p>Hi! I've taken the ACT in the past with a score of 34. I did pretty well in every section except the science part (ran out of time), so I decided to retake the ACT today. Somebody told me that schools super score the ACT, and I (foolishly) believed him and signed up for the ACT without writing since I was under the impression that I only needed to boost my science score.</p>
<p>Right now I feel like I've done a lot better on this one than the last one and I'm expecting to get maybe a 35-36. My question is that, if the school doesn't super score the ACT, should I send both scores? Also, how would the schools take the two scores into consideration?</p>
<p>The schools on my list are:
Stanford (Early Action)
Princeton
Yale
U Penn
Columbia
USC
MIT
and the UC's </p>
<p>Any help or suggestion would be extremely appreciated, thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>i may be mistaken, and certain schools may have their own rules, but i believe most colleges will just look at your composite score and choose your highest one.</p>
<p>Yeah, the only college I'm sure of that superscores is wustl.</p>
<p>What I'm not sure about is whether they'd take a 34 with writing or a 35 without. If they accept the act in lieu of the sat and subject tests if you take the writing (which a good chunk of those schools don't), they may not accept an act score that comes w/out the writing section.
But that could be wrong.</p>
<p>If you had a 34 with writing, and a 35/36 without writing, that is not a problem. Not only would it show consistency and improvement, but they would see both sets of scores, see your highest composite, see your writing, and understand.</p>