When filling out a player profile for a showcase organization, do you put your actual ACT / SAT score, or your ACT / SAT superscore?
For those profiles that get specific into Math scores, Reading scores, etc. do you take the scores from a single test or do you use the best scores you have gotten in those sections?
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went through this with my 2014 for football. take the best score from each or the "super score". this is what the college admissions departments look at, so that's what I'd do.
Most, but not all college admissions departments look at super scores. There are many that only accept a "single sitting" score. But, even in those cases, they will accept and "take into consideration" all single sitting scores.
I suggest listing both. The composite score from a single test sitting (which is what some college admission offices use), as well as the "super score." However, I would list it as the "NCAA Eligibility Score."
For example, for NCAA eligibility purposes, they would look at the ACT "sum score" which is the total of the best score achieved on each of the four ACT subject areas. So, you can take scores from the October and February tests, for example (best from each of the four subjects) to determine the ACT "sum score." This is the score the coaches will be looking for if their school uses the ACT for admission.
This is kind of related: Son took ACT and did okay, took it again and did one point better. He also took SAT between the two ACT tests and scored roughly the same as the ACT according to the charts that describe the correlation of the two tests.
Son waited one more month, took the SAT again and scored over 200 pts higher on the three part SAT.
My question is this: on the recruiting questionnaires, should he include the middlin' ACT score along with the much higher SAT score, or can he just list his SAT scores and leave the ACT score boxes blank?
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