I just got accepted ED to a school (which I dont really want to disclose), but when I self reported my ACT on the common app, I reported my superscore of 35 instead of a lower composite of 32 because I didn’t exactly understand what was meant to go there. Is this grounds for my admission to get rescinded? I only found out this was bad after one of my friends told me that schools care about composite scores even if they accept superscores (which the school I applied to does).. I’m honestly really stressed out and I don’t know if I should email admissions and tell them the issue, since I also reported the official ACT scores after I got admitted.
IMO contact your AO. Better to acknowledge, explain, than for them to discover it without your being forthcoming. It’s probably not a big deal, since you did (via superscore) get the 35, so the reporting was the error, not the data itself.
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Unless the school doesn’t superscore.
I agree OP should contact their AO ASAP.
And for OP, assuming you used common app, the ACT question is simply report your ‘highest composite score’ (followed by questions asking for the highest score of each section). I think that’s pretty clear so you might just say you made an honest mistake rather than say you didn’t ’exactly understand’ what the question was asking. JMO.
Contact admissions at that college directly. Then the response could be:
- ED admission is still valid, and you matriculate while cancelling other applications.
- ED admission changed to deferral, and you continue other applications.
- ED admission changed to rejection, and you continue other applications.
Any of the above happening now will be better than matriculating and then worrying about getting rescinded later.
Good point. There are still some schools that don’t superscore.
Good points. I would counsel OP to not pull their other apps yet and also to speak with their school counselor tomorrow at school.