<p>I have taken the ACT before but all the times have been without writing. I really want to improve my score and get a good writing score as well. Will taking it multiple times hurt me, even though those times were without writing?? I’m really anxious! </p>
<p>I got a 30 my first time freshman year but then the next time my score dropped because it was the night after a performance which i didn’t get to sleep until 1am and I had been sleep deprived for weeks. Do the college admissions realize there are extenuating circumstances sometimes?</p>
<p>With the ACT you only report the scores you want to. Period.</p>
<p>Report you best score (or best set of scores for super scoring purposes if the colleges do that) and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>So taking it again shouldn’t hurt you, because the ACT lets you report only the scores you want to report (the SAT recently did this as well with their score choice option).</p>
<p>Yep. Only… there is the hang up with those colleges choosing to kick score choice.</p>
<p>In the past it was the case that of the ACTs you took - you could send any of them you wanted and drop the rest. Of the SATs you took you were forced to send everyone, whether you liked it or not. Colleges were content, students were okay with it, and so on.</p>
<p>But then the college board issued their score choice option and some schools didn’t like it. A lot of the higher end schools decided it wouldn’t be fair to lower income students for those students who could take several testings and only report their best one. This was never mentioned before when the exact same policy was used by the ACT, but when the collegeboard instated it, there was some rejection of it. As it stands there are a number of schools are oppose score choice and now demand that you send EVERY score when submitting your scores. From what I understand this included ACTs and SATs.</p>
<p>However, from what I understand, the colleges have no way of knowing whether or not you submitted 1 or all of your ACTs, or whether or not you used the score choice option on your SATs. It’s essentially on the honor system.</p>
<p>Soo, things are a bit complicated and there are a number of threads discussing the intricacies that you may want to look into. But, as it stands, it’s far from a big deal. Colleges are not known to make a fuss over too many testing dates, so even if you do end up sending all your scores it probably won’t hurt you.</p>
<p>My new motto is: Go to the source. It really is the best way to find the answer to your question.</p>
<p>My daughter recently had an ACT/SAT score reporting question (because she took the SAT last weekend and the ACT today). I took her list of colleges to which she plans to apply, plus a few possibilities, and searched their websites to find out their policies, then copied and pasted them into one document for future reference. She has reaches and matches on her list, plus two safeties. Not one of them requires that all scores be reported; all respect Score Choice for the SAT.</p>
<p>You can confirm whether this is true of your chosen colleges, and if you are a rising senior, now would be a good time to do so!</p>
<p>Thank you both. I will definetly go look at the websites to see. I am a rising senior, and I go to a school that is focused on getting students to simply pass the state required tests. None of my counselors know anything about getting students in to Ivy Leagues or other top schools! I really appreciate all of your help</p>