<p>Hello, could someone help me with answering some ACT registration questions please?</p>
<p>My son was trying to register over the weekend and was getting really frustrated with the number of questions that were being asked? Is it really important to answer all of them having to do with interests and accomplishments or is this mainly a tool for colleges to send him tons of mailings that he gets as it is?</p>
<p>Also, there seemed to be two options - with and without writing. Pros and cons for each options?</p>
<p>And lastly, how does he make sure that colleges don’t get his scores unless he sends it to them?</p>
<p>In general, do the results get mailed directly to our home or to school?</p>
<p>Don’t know whether you can avoid answering most of the interests and accomplishments sections but I would assume you should be able to. Though probably used by colleges for recruitment, one of their main purposes is for annual reports and studies published by ACT on high school students who take the test.</p>
<p>Many colleges require the writing section if you submit ACT and thus, unless he intends to apply only to colleges that do not require the writing, he should take the optional writing section.</p>
<p>ACT sends scores to colleges when you request it to do so. If you do not name colleges in the application to receive scores, none will be sent by ACT. You can always wait to send until after score comes out but that costs an additonal fee per college.</p>
<p>A different issue is your high school. If you name your high school in the application for the test (and you do not have to), the high school will receive your scores. Many high schools put all the scores they have for you on your official high school transcript that is sent to colleges. Thus, if you really want to avoid a college from knowing a score you usually need to (a) not name the college in the application as a recipient and (b) not name your high school in the application. Nevertheless, you then would face another issue because many colleges have a requirement that you submit all test scores when applying to those colleges. In other words, you should not take a test assuming that you can actually hide it from colleges to which you might apply.</p>