Is my SAT Score good enough?

NotVerySmart
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:55:27 +0000

Test scores are a hurdle. At highly selective schools, they’re either

A. Really low, cause for rejection in the case of almost all unhooked applicants (at the schools you’ve mentioned, that’s <2000)
B. Low enough to disadvantage your application, to an extent (<2200)
C. Not a problem - high enough to tick the “test scores” box and let the application reader move on to the next item in your application.

A 36 on the ACT is extremely rare, and would offer little to no advantage over a 2320 superscore. A 35 is slightly less rare, and more or less identical to that 2320. There’s no real upside to your taking the ACT.