For class of 2021… who will be applying to college for 2021/22 school year.
Will colleges still place a higher value on single sitting ACT scores even if they allow superscoring? I recently got a very good score single sitting first try and I’d be very mad if someone could superscore up to the same score and have the same consideration.
I am not sure any college that superscores places a higher value on a single sitting score. Have any AOs told you they do that?
Further, many schools that don’t formally superscore, do look at highest section scores, even if they don’t recalculate a superscored composite.
The idea is to use the combination of test scores that make an applicant the strongest.
…Then there are the 1,100 or so schools that are test optional…where students who submit test scores compete alongside those who didn’t submit a score.
@Mwfan1921 So let’s say two people apply to a college that superscores, and one person took the ACT once and obtained a 35/36/36/36 in one sitting. Let’s say there’s another student who takes the full test twice, first time gets a 33/32/35/35, second time improves a bit more, and then section retests to a superscored 36/36/35/35. Those two test scores would be weighted the same? Even though one is clearly more impressive than the other.
I can’t answer that question because I’m not an AO. But I have not heard an AO say a one-and-done is weighted more heavily…but that could probably happen at least sub-consciously…but most AOs have no visibility as to how many times an applicant took the tests.
For example, for schools that allow self-reporting, they don’t know how many times an applicant has taken the test. The applicant reports their highest composite and subsection scores, and the date(s) of each. If an applicant’s highest composite and subsection scores were all from the same test…that still doesn’t necessarily mean they only took the test once, so how would an AO even know the applicant was a one-and-done?
The only schools that would ever have visibility to that are the ones that require all scores to be officially submitted. There’s just a few of those left.
One and done doesn’t have huge weight. Just too many people at selective schools including Michigan that would if never gotten in. If that was true