should I take the ACT a 4th time?

mmk2015
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:01:03 +0000

@wcmcollege, they mean well. Everyone is just trying to help in their own way. So here are my 2 cents.

If you score much higher on your 2nd try SAT, like 1550, and your June ACT doesn’t improve much, then you can just use your SAT scores for the colleges.

Most won’t even care that you took the test multiple times. Most will just want your highest scores. Many even Super Score the SAT but not the ACT.

As for the very few who do require all your scores, you can use the system to your advantage: delete any/all low ACT scores. You can’t send anything that doesn’t exist. And don’t worry so much about schools finding out that you took the ACT a few times. Legally, the ACT scores are your property. Legally, only you can send your scores to colleges, so they have no idea what you took or didn’t take. And you can’t send anything that no longer exists, if deleted.

Just make sure you absolutely don’t want those ACT scores to exist because once you delete, it’s permanent. It will be like you never took those tests. ACT will send a notice to your high school that the deleted scores should be removed from your high school records. Make sure to follow up with your high school to make sure those deleted scores are in fact removed. Some high schools print your entire testing history in the transcript. Make sure your high school doesn’t do that. If it does, make sure the deleted scores are not on that transcript.

I’m pretty sure that’s the info you were really looking for. Ethical or not, it’s the real info.