royallypurple

Hi, I want to take the ACT test multiple times and I saw on the ACT website that you only need to report one score to colleges. I was wondering how true this is since even with SAT score choice some colleges still require that you report all scores. Do colleges ever require students to report all ACT scores? Thanks.

drusba

Most colleges accept score choice and thus you can send one (SAT or ACT). For those who reject score choice, their rules vary. Some require no ACTs if you submit SAT, some require all ACT official scores if you submit any ACT, some who otherwise require all SATs will accept a single ACT score, some of those require you to list all other ACTs in your application, some state their requirements in such ambiguous ways that no one can really figure out what their rules are, other variations. Colleges have reacted to score choice in varying ways and apparently don't care about being clear or if the result is to make the application process even more complicated than it was before. So you need to check with each college to determine its rules on the ACT.

bluebayou

Since ACT requires that you pay to send each test, colleges will be "ambiguous" wrt ACT. They would prefer to see ALL scores so THEY can pick and choose. But they realize that it is a financial imposition to send all ACT scores, so they won't come out and tell you to send all. Plus, even those colleges now requiring all SAT scores have heretofore accepted score choice with ACT. Thus, they speak out of both sides of their mouth.

But to respond, I am confident that you can safely send one ACT score.

FauxNom

Some schools would require you to send all ACT scores if you want to rely on them. E.g., Pomona requires all ACT scores be officially reported, if you choose to rely on your ACT results. Yale, in contrast, allows self-reporting of all but one of your ACT scores, so there, you don't have to "send" more than one official report. But both colleges expect to see all your ACT scores, unless you're relying only on the SAT.

rodney

again, I ask, "why would you send multiple ACT scores unless school is superscoring ACT?" which so few do.....
what's the point here? and how can schools require you to do that?

add to the fact that each ACT report costs $$......