Do highly selective colleges look at individual ACT scores

lostaccount
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:37:07 +0000

Sounds like the OP and/or his son has clear ideas about which schools the son is interested in and is asking specifically about the ACTs rather than whether he should go to the local directional. But It would have been easier to evaluate if OP had written out 1st test scores: Composite=x; English=x etc. Followed by the string of scores from the 2nd test. Can’t make out the total and subscores for both test sessions.

So instead I’ll just note that one thing to consider is that some schools place more emphasis on the Math and English sub-scores since the Science and Reading lower the validity of the Composite. In that case it sounds like his subscores would still be quite high. I suspect that there is great variability in how well adcons understand that the scores are not on a linear scale. Even so, it would not make much sense for the student to re-take the test (because je is close to ceiling and it is difficult to improve some scores while keeping the others as high) unless it didn’t take time away from other accomplishment and if he went all out in terms of studying. For most students, the return would not be worth the time. For most it would be more worthwhile putting effort into more meaningful endeavors.