<p>Why on earth would you pay $47 to take the ACT and then cancel your scores? I simply do not understand it. Since most colleges only consider your highest score, why would you cancel your score just because you THINK it may be low? Even if you KNOW it is low, why does it matter that you cancel the score?</p>
<p>Not all colleges super score.</p>
<p>But still, if there’s a chance (no matter how small) of a score increase, why would someone cancel the score before they even know? Is there any benefit to canceling?</p>
<p>If you know that you did much worse than you thought you would, and the colleges you’re interested in don’t super score, then I think it makes sense to just cancel and take the test another time when you’re better prepared.</p>
<p>Also, some colleges don’t like to have students take a test more than 2 times, the numbers just start loosing their value. These are also the schools that require you to send in all scores, I can see why people will cancel.</p>
<p>Huh, I still find it odd that people would cancel or take the tests enough times to even consider canceling. Apparently, I just can’t relate…</p>
<p>But you can send only scores you want. So it doesn’t matter. You’d just be breaking their policy lol</p>
<p>For the ACT, yes, it’s silly. Colleges don’t require you to send all of your ACT scores though because, unlike College Board, each test date costs $10 to send.</p>
<p>So basically there’s no point in canceling</p>
<p>Seems that way to me. The only scenario I can imagine is someone who previously sent, say, a 33 to a college, then listed that college as one of the 4 free score reports for the next test, and now feels so afraid of his possible 30 (God forbid) looking bad next to his 33 that he would cancel the score.
That’s about the only way I can justify it.</p>
<p>even if you did terribly you can email the makers of the ACT and they will take a score out of their records</p>