Please Help. Advice regarding admission preferences for standardized testing submiss.

Applying to College
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<p>(Note: I know my standardized tests scores aren’t good but I have positive attributes in many other areas and am aiming for some very selective schools; Stanford, Columbia…)</p>

<p>Due to unforeseen circumstances I was unable to take the ACT during November as I had planned and therefore had to take it during December. </p>

<p>As many of you may know, the ACT corp is being particularly awful and slow about releasing the scores for December’s test. I called them up and found that additional scores will not be released until after the application deadline for most of my schools (they release on jan 5 - my application deadline is jan 1).</p>

<p>I was hoping to be able to choose between submitting the higher of my ACTs or SATs to submit but clearly I cannot do as I had planned. So now, I have a decision to make. Because common app requires that you report your numbers and your testing dates for the tests you want your schools to consider, i have to decide whether to only report my SAT or to report my SAT along with my ACT (blind).</p>

<p>The factors:

  1. my SAT superscore is 2130 which is OKAY but… well… its superscored
    1st:
    CR: 740
    MATH: 670
    WRITING: 630
    2nd:
    CR: 710
    MATH: 630
    WRITING: 720</p>

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<li><p>When I did ACT practice tests I tended to get an overall better score than from the SAT (around the range of 31 to 33.5) but obviously i don’t know for sure since i have never taken a real ACT test</p></li>
<li><p>To be honest, I’m pretty sure my ACT composite will be the same or better than my SAT score but i am concerned about the science section which I am not great at. I was planning on looking at my science scores and if they were average (31/32), submitting them anyway for the overall higher composite. But if they were bad (below 30) I would just not submit the ACTs at all. This is because I take a very science oriented course load and have very high marks in both biology and chemistry. I am concerned that a low science score in the ACT will undercut these high grades. </p></li>
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<p>I’m very uncertain about what to do. Can anybody give me some advice?</p>

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<p>*Note: Something to clarify - is it really bad if I don’t input the dates or mention the ACTs in my common app but if after I receive the scores I decide that I do want to send them to my universities?</p>

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<p>bump?..</p>