worth it to take the ACT tomorrow?

studiokillers
Sat, 06 Feb 2016 02:58:53 +0000

hey everyone,

i hope youre all having a great evening! im just in a bit of a predicament…

so, im not really sure whether to take the ACT tomorrow or not. i mean, my score right now is really really low for the schools i wanna get into, but is it worth it?

right now, i have a 31. with the practice tests ive been doing, ive been scoring between a 34 and a 36. oh, its also important to note that im a senior, an international student (from canada), and asian :0
my GPA is a 3.9 i think on the american scale? for extracurriculars, my main ones are debate at the provincial and national levels, involvement with TED and TEDx, involvement in Parkinson’s advocacy, classical music, and my language proficiency (wrote some essays on it and put it as an EC, i speak around 10). i think my common app, supplementary essays, and teacher recs were really good too! and the interviews ive had have been great so far.

to put it into perspective, also, the american schools i applied to were johns hopkins, uchicago, yale, stanford, harvard, yale-nus, and brown (which is my UBER top choice).

but for the ACT tomorrow, first off, i have some crazy deadlines i have to be finishing my online courses for, which i need to work on. and most importantly, i dont really think im in the mental state to write it. my mental health has been really awful lately, not to mention im ridiculously sleep deprived. so even with the prep i did, i feel like i would do awful given how i am right now, and id also be wasting my day.

so like, considering the rest of my application, is it really imperative bump up my score? i realize my chances are low right now, but would raising it really do a whole lot for me, especially considering there’s a chance it wouldnt even come in on time?

thank you so much in advance! also im sorry if this doesnt make a lot of sense, im absolutely exhausted atm
thanks!