If you take the SAT or ACT more than once, you might be worried about your score in a particular section decreasing even if your composite or final score increases. In order to show yourself in the best light, some colleges will allow you to superscore the SAT or ACT.
What is SuperScoring?
Superscoring entails taking your highest score for each section of the test across all your test sittings and using the highest section scores to calculate your final score (SAT) or composite score (ACT).
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Table: SAT superscoring example.
Math | Reading/Writing | Total | |
Attempt 1 | 650 | 700 | 1350 |
Attempt 2 | 710 | 650 | 1360 |
Superscore | 710 | 700 | 1410 |
For example, let’s say you take the SAT once. You get a 650 in Math, and a 700 in Reading and Writing, giving you a final score of 1350.
You want to get that math score up, so you take it again. This time you get a 710 in Math, and a 650 in Reading and Writing, giving you a final score of 1360.
Superscoring allows you to take your highest section scores between both sittings to calculate your final score. So you would take your 710 in Math from the second test, and your 700 in Reading and Writing, giving you a final score of 1410. Get 20 SAT strategies to improve your score.
Table: ACT superscoring example.
Reading | English | Math | Science | Total | |
Attempt 1 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 27 | 26 |
Attempt 2 | 27 | 26 | 23 | 23 | 25 |
Superscore | 27 | 26 | 30 | 27 | 28 |
Now let’s say you take the ACT once. You get a 22 in Reading, a 25 in English, a 30 in Math, and a 27 in Science. Your composite score is 26. The second time you take it, you get a 27 in Reading, a 26 in English, a 23 in Math, and a 23 in Science. This gives you a composite score of 25.
Superscoring your ACT allows you to take your 27 in Reading from the first test, your 26 in English from the second, your 30 in Math from the first, and your 27 in Science from the first, making your composite score 28. Not sure if you should take the ACT again? Click here to find out why you should.
Do I superscore myself? Or does the college do it?
It depends on the college. Some colleges require you to submit all of your scores from each sitting. If they superscore, they will do the calculations. Some colleges recommend but do not require you to submit all your scores. Finally, some colleges allow you to choose which scores from which sittings you want to submit, allowing you to superscore on your own.
Which colleges allow you to superscore the SAT and/or ACT?
The table below lists colleges that allow you to superscore the SAT and/or the ACT along with their score submission policies. Explanations of the score submission policies are as follows:
Requires all: These colleges require you to submit every single one of your standardized test scores, both SAT and ACT, from all sittings.
Requires all SAT or ACT: These colleges require you to submit either all of your SAT scores from all sittings or all of your ACT scores from all sittings.
Recommends all: These colleges recommend but do not require that you submit all of your standardized test scores.
Score choice accepted: These colleges allow you to submit whichever scores from whichever sittings you would like.
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Keep in mind that colleges might change their policies from year to year, so be sure to check their admissions websites to get the most up-to-date information.
TABLE: List of universities that SuperScore, and score submission policies.
College |
SAT Superscore Allowed? |
ACT Superscore Allowed? |
Score Submission Policy |
Abilene Christian University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Adelphi University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Agnes Scott College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Albion College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Allegheny College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
American University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Amherst College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Appalachian State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Arizona State University-Tempe |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Austin College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Babson College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Baldwin Wallace University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Bard College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Barnard College |
Yes |
No |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Baylor University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Beloit College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Bennington College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Bentley University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Berea College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Berry College |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Binghamton University-SUNY |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Biola University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Birmingham-Southern College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Boston College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Bowdoin College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Brandeis University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Brown University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Bryn Mawr College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Bucknell University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Butler University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California Lutheran University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California State University-Fresno |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California State University-Fullerton |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California State University-Long Beach |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California State University-Los Angeles |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
California State University-Monterey Bay |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
California State University-Northridge |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Carleton College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Case Western Reserve University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Centre College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Chapman University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Christopher Newport University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Claremont McKenna College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Clark University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Clarkson University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Clemson University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Colby College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Colgate University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
College of Charleston |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
College of New Jersey |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
College of St. Benedict |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
College of the Holy Cross |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
College of William and Mary |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
College of Wooster |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Colorado College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Colorado State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Columbia University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Concordia College-Moorhead |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Connecticut College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Cooper Union |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Cornell College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Cornell University |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Creighton University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
CUNY-Baruch College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Dartmouth College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Davidson College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Dennison University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
DePauw University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Dickinson College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Drew University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Drexel University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Duke University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Duquesne University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Earlham College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Elon University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Emerson College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Emory University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Fairfield University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Florida Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Fordham University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Franklin and Marshall College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Furman University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Gallaudet University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
George Mason University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
George Washington University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Georgetown University |
Yes |
No |
Requires all |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Gettysburg College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Gonzaga College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Goshen College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Goucher College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Grinnell College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Hamilton College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Hampden-Sydney College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Hampton University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Hanover College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Harvard University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Harvey Mudd College |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all |
Haverford College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Hendrix College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
High Point University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Hofstra University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Hollins University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Howard University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Humboldt State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Illinois Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Indiana University-Bloomington |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice okay |
Ithaca College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
James Madison University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Johns Hopkins University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Kalamazoo College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Kenyon College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Knox College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Lafayette College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Lake Forest College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Lawrence University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Lehigh University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Lewis & Clark College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Loyola Marymount University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Loyola University Maryland |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Loyola University New Orleans |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Luther College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Marist College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Mercer University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Miami University-Oxford |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Middlebury College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Mills College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Millsaps College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Milwaukee School of Engineering |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Mississippi State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Morehouse College |
Yes |
Contact college |
Score choice accepted |
Muhlenberg College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
New College of Florida |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
New York University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
North Carolina State University-Raleigh |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Northeastern University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Northwestern University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Oberlin College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Occidental College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Ohio University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Ohio Wesleyan University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Pacific Lutheran University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Pepperdine University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Pitzer College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Point Loma Nazarene University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Pomona College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Pratt Institute |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Presbyterian College (SC) |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Princeton University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Providence College |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Purdue University-West Lafayette |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Queens University of Charlotte |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Quinnipiac University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Randolph-Macon College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Reed College |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Rhodes College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Rice University |
Yes |
No |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Rollins College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Samford University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
San Diego State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
San Francisco State University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
San Jose State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Santa Clara University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Sarah Lawrence College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Scripps College |
Yes |
No |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Seattle University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Seton Hall University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Sewanee-University of the South |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Siena College |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Simmons College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Skidmore College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Smith College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Soka University of America |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Southern Methodist University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Southwestern University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Spelman College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
St. John Fisher College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
St. John’s College Annapolis |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
St. John’s University (NY) |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
St. Lawrence University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
St. Mary’s College (IN) |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
St. Mary’s College of California |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
St. Michael’s College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
St. Olaf College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Stanford University |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all |
Stetson University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Stonehill College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Stony Brook University-SUNY |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
SUNY-Geneseo |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Susquehanna University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Swarthmore College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Syracuse University |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all |
Taylor University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Temple University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Texas Christian University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Texas Lutheran University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
The Catholic University of America |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
The Citadel |
Yes |
No |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Thomas Aquinas College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Transylvania University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Trinity College (Hartford) |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Trinity University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Tufts University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Tulane University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Union College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
United States Air Force Academy |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
United States Coast Guard Academy |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
United States Military Academy |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
United States Naval Academy |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University at Albany-SUNY |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University at Buffalo-SUNY |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of Arkansas-Fayetteville |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Chicago |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Colorado-Boulder |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Connecticut |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Dallas |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
University of Denver |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Florida |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of Georgia |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Kentucky |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of La Verne |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Mary Washington |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Maryland-College Park |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Miami |
Yes |
Yes |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
University of New Hampshire |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of North Carolina-Wilmington |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Notre Dame |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of Oregon |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of Pennsylvania |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Pittsburgh |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
University of Portland |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Puget Sound |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Redlands |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Richmond |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of Rochester |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of San Diego |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
University of San Francisco |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of South Carolina |
Yes |
No |
Requires all |
University of South Florida |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
University of Southern California |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of St. Thomas (MN) |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Tennessee |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Texas-Dallas |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
University of the Pacific |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Tulsa |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
University of Vermont |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
University of Virginia |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Ursinus College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Valparaiso University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Vanderbilt University |
Yes |
No |
Recommends all |
Vassar College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Villanova University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Virginia Military Institute |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Wabash College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Wake Forest University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Washington and Jefferson College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Washington and Lee University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Washington College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Washington State University |
Yes |
Yes |
Recommends all |
Washington University in St. Louis |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Wellesley College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Wesleyan University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Westmont College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Wheaton College (IL) |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Whitman College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Willamette College |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Williams College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Wofford College |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Yes |
No |
Score choice accepted |
Xavier University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |
Yale University |
Yes |
No |
Requires all SAT or ACT |
Yeshiva University |
Yes |
Yes |
Score choice accepted |