It's May 1 and that can only mean one thing. Today is the deadline for seniors to make their enrollment deposits at the college of their choice and juniors are puzzling over their ACT results. I've posted about this before but since I received four questions about the ACT this morning, I thought it would be a good time to remind juniors of two handy resources.
Here is an ACT/SAT conversion table to help you understand your ACT score:
http://www.act.org/solutions/college-career-readiness/compare-act-sat/
ACT superscoring
With this policy, a college will select a student’s highest subscores from each of the four categories that make up the ACT and create what could be a more impressive superscore.
This practice, by the way, is standard procedure with the SAT. When a student takes multiple SAT tests, colleges routinely pick the best scores from the three SAT categories – math, reading and writing.
Almost every college "superscores" the SAT when students take the test multiple times, but this has not always been the case with the ACT. In recent years, more and more colleges have adopted a policy of superscoring the ACT. There is not a complete and official list of which colleges superscore the ACT, so we recommend that students review the college websites for the most up to date information. Some of the big-name schools that superscore the ACT include Amherst College, Boston College, Brandeis University, Haverford College, New York University, Tufts University, U.S. Naval Academy, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina, Washington University in St. Louis and Williams College.
Published by: TSM
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