ACT 33 - chasing higher score or being done?

trackmbe3
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 01:03:11 +0000

@JDCaliMom Based on my recent experience with two kids taking the ACT, they did their best on the April and June of junior year. She can study from the ACT practice books and her test prep notes on her own in the months before the test. She will be in study mode and sharp at end of her academically rigorous junior year and she will have taken all the math and English that could pop up on the test. It should not be too difficult for her to study a little each week and on the weekends in the second semester of jr year.If she takes it in September of her senior year she likely will be rusty from being abroad all summer and out of her study mode zone. And scores won’t come back till October --beginning of senior year is hard enugh with all the college essay writing and applications on top of extra-curriculars. Your time in September should be on finalizing your daughters college list and working on all the essays and applications and even perhaps visiting a few colleges. Not taking more standardized tests. And the only schools that require ALL ACT scores to be submitted are mostly just the Ivy League and top 20 national universities and LACs, with a few exceptions. The increased chances of getting more amount of merit aid with a higher ACT score of 34 and above (especially if a college super scores) makes it worth taking a few more times. (Columbia and other IVYs and top 20 elite schools usually won’t offer any merit aid only need-based aid.)