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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. 
Sitting 1: 32, due to low English section. 
---->Learned comma rules, etc. 
Sitting 2: 34,

Superscore: 35

Worth taking again to get a single sitting 35?

Do schools care?[/quote]

i always thought single sitting is the 'first' sitting - one and only.[/quote]

sure, but a college will never know if your "single sitting" was actually on try 5. 
Even the Presidential Scholars program will not know (or care) about this.

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WRONG!  You have to report a TOTAL COMPOSITE FROM ONE SINGLE SITTING---even if you provide highest subscores with test dates.  You can't provide the COMMON APP a superscored Composite score.

You report from a single siting:
Highest Composite (from one single test date)
Highest Verbal (with date)
Highest Reading (with date)
Highest Math (with date)
Highest Science (with date)
^if those 4 different dates make a higher composite--you can't report that under 'highest composite'--not on common app, or for UVA and other schools.

The schools will receive a 'superscore' report if you send it which will have all the scores from any test you used to generate a 'composite' and it will have a superscore composite on it.[/quote]

another thing to think about is your declared intended major. My kid was humanities so the perfect 36 in Verbal and 36 in Reading helped.  If you declare Math and it's your lowest subset--that is going to look 'off'.  If you have a low science and low math as a STEM major you might want to rethink the ACT.[/quote]

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