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05-13-2008, 10:54 AM
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#1 | | New Member
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| Value in Perfect Score? Retake a 35 ACT?
CC is probably the only place anyone could ask this without sounding obnoxious - and i hope i don't sound obnoxious here - but I narrowly missed a 36 on the April ACT by making a stupid mistake (literally "misbubbling" (a word?)) on an answer in the reading passage. That mistake probably cost me the 36 composite, tho I did not "ace" the test, my scores broke out such that I think that would have pushed me up to 36 composite. I am very pleased with my SAT score and the only reason I would be taking ACT again is to log the 36 because I was so close.
Is there an inherent value to a 36, enough to warrant taking it again? I know there is nothing to lose, but i don't want to be obsessive and freak myself out.
What does CC think? I would not be studying again for it because I think luck is a factor at this level. | 
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05-13-2008, 11:03 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| This would be obsessive.
There are much, much better things to do with your time. For example, you could cut your toenails, wash the car, walk the dog, clean out the refrigderator.
There really is no advantage to a 36 over a 35. | |
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05-13-2008, 11:05 AM
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#3 | | New Member
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| thanks for your response - i was kind of thinking that myself. | |
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05-13-2008, 07:12 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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| Nah, you're fine. Probably 9 out of 10 times, you scored higher than the other person. | |
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05-15-2008, 08:01 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Southern California
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| The only value is bragging rights. 
Save your money and sleep in on the next test date. | |
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05-18-2008, 07:33 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
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| yea sleep in and go suck a dookie | |
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05-19-2008, 10:09 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Tennessee Gender: Male
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| ^^What the eff?
I made a 35, and I didn't retake it. I thought about it, but I was scared that my score would drop. | |
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05-20-2008, 01:52 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Arizona ---> HANOVER, NH Gender: Male
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| Agree with VeryHappy. Your score is good enough and colleges will not look down at your score. | |
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05-31-2008, 04:48 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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| don't retake it. but i'll pose a question to the rest of you. i got a 34. should i retake it? | |
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05-31-2008, 08:26 PM
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#10 | | Junior Member
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| Don't retake a 34 OR a 35. That's just silly. | |
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06-01-2008, 09:12 AM
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#11 | | Junior Member
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| To answer your question, there is no inherent value to a 36. A 36 is just as much better than a 35 than a 35 is better than a 34. It's not like you're on a whole other level with a 36. The most likely thing that you'd do is match you're current score or lower it, which could only be bad.
Same thing goes for a 34. You are over the middle 50% at basically every school, with the exception of MIT and a few ivies where you're in the top 25% anyways. | |
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06-01-2008, 04:16 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
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| in my book it says that 34,35,36 are all 99 percentile so there is no difference. | |
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06-01-2008, 05:33 PM
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#13 | | Junior Member
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| actually, 36 as a 99th percentile is better than 34 as a 99th percentile. Just because they're all in the 99th percentile doesn't mean that colleges doesn't count on that 1 or 2 points. | |
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06-01-2008, 11:55 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
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| i've got a similar question. i got a 35 also, but with a 9 on the essay... i know i can do better, but i don't want to drop in composite.
advice?
(fyi, a 9 is the 88th percentile, a 10 is the 97th percentile.) | 
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06-04-2008, 07:34 PM
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#15 | | Junior Member
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| thisdude, the exact same thing happened to me. I got a 35 with a 9 on the essay. I am still deciding whether or not I want to take it again on standby, as I really think I could get the 36. | |
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