<p>I am trying to understand the process of reporting ACT scores to colleges. My son took the February ACT. He won’t take it again until June. Depending on his June score, he might take it again the fall of his senior year. Does he have to report all 3 scores to the colleges he is considering? Can he only send his February test score in if it is the highest, even if he doesn’t submit them until November (9 months later)? Do some colleges look at all 3 separate testing dates, and take the highest score from each section of the test? DS thinks he heard that. How do we know if his college does that?</p>
<p>If a school/s are not requiring all seatings (the schools that my son applied to did not, and most don’t), you may send in the highest seatings (you can send in scores from months before, that is not a problem). My son did contact admissions at all of the schools he inteded to apply to and found out if they superscore. Many who did not have that info in on their website said that they will do that. My son ended up sending his highest single seating to most schools, but a couple of schools that superscore (mix and match subscores) got scores from 2 seatings. Sending scores from more than one seating costs more money, but if it is going to mean more merit money or admission to a school, it is worth the extra few dollars.</p>
<p>BTW, you order that scores to be sent to specific schools when the time comes (my son ordered most of them last August as his list became more firm) through the ACT website. Check with each school to ensure that the scores were received. I have found the ACT to be extremely reliable, but 2 schools misplaced my son’s scores. After getting info through the ACT (they keep dates and numbers on hand to locate) the schools did find the scores.</p>
<p>Some high schools slap scores on transcripts if they receive them through the ACT. You can take your son’s high school out of the loop. We did that. We did not want any scores that we did not see first, going onto our son’s transcript.</p>
<p>For most schools, you can send just the highest score. Some schools (like Stanford) ask for all scores. I am not sure if this applies only to SAT or to both SAT and ACT.
Some schools (like WUSTL) superscore (take the highest score from each section) the ACT, so it may work to your advantage to send more than one score.</p>
<p>Although checking a box to automatically send scores is convenient, it is generally to the students’ advantage to see his scores first, then send the best.</p>
<p>Yes ^^ for colleges that super score send the dates that result in the highest composite, for others just send the date that has the highest composite. Just as an FYI, at the time of registering for the test you can send I think 4 scores for free, but unless someone is certain that the score will be higher than a previous date it’s not saving all that much money to wait and pay to send scores.</p>
<p>I don’t think many schools “super score” the ACT. I think only a few do. Others can correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>There are also some schools that won’t super score the SAT.</p>
<p>^^ I thought that too. It is stated over and over on cc. We have looked into it. For many small LACs that we contacted, they DO superscore. One needs to contact admissions for individual schools and ask. I will say that we were not looking at top schools, just some average/solid small schools for B or B+ students.</p>