Back to the subject of college. Does anyone with recent experience know....
how schools (ND in particular) look at ACT scores? Specifically, our daughter had perfect scores on the Reading and English sections, but just "ok" in math and science. I know some schools superscore, but I don't think ND does.
I was wondering if in her case (since she is planning to major in English) they would give her more consideration due to her scores in areas relevant to her major.
Anyone have thoughts on this? She's already been accepted to her other choices. ND is the only "top" school she has an interest in applying to.
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ND does superscore now.
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Nice! That will be helpful since she retested to improve those areas.
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I remember my bar hopping days when I used to superscore. Good times.
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Lol.
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those are more "male" subjects anyway, so just write and tell them the admission process is sexi
st if she isn't accepted.
She's saving that tactic if she decides to apply to an Ivy.
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I can only tell you about the NAIA school my daughter got into for her Freshman year.
They didn't need her ACT score. They took her GPA and class rank and that was enough. Took the SAT as a precaution. But then again, being a pretty good pitcher helped her case in getting accepted. She transferred to a D2 school this year to be with her pitching coach who was just hired as head coach. No sure how they would have done their admission if she applied coming out of HS but they took her body of work as a freshman and her GPA and accepted her. The coach letting admissions know she was there for softball may have helped a bit too. Her sacrifices growing up are paying off.
I think all of the schools she applied to are test optional. Including ND.
That seems to be the "in" thing. I figured though that if you have good scores, it helps.
The admissions page will tell you the freshman profile for last year.
If her ACT score is higher than the median, submit it. If not, it might be better to skip the test scores. That’s what guidance counselors are saying this year.
Interesting.
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I just looked it up.
Range for the mid 50% of the class was 33-35.
That means 25% had an ACT lower than 33. I personally would hold off sending a score of 32 or lower. But as you say, there may be a good story in the breakdown of the score.
Link: https://admissions.nd.edu/apply/
Thanks! I appreciate the information.
Looks like her composite will be on the bubble. Will have to think through if she has a compelling story with her 2 high scores.
I’d also rec submitting it if it is at the median since that will confirm the student is legit......
......the schools will have a harder time sifting out the ceiling of their candidates since so many are not sending them in. I believe that they will prefer the security of a “classically” qualified candidate regardless of what they are forced to say this year.