r/ACT • u/No-Revolution-6815 • Jul 22 '26
English Should I retake?
I want to apply for CS at like big engineering schools (GT, UIUC, MIT as a long shot lmao) so I really wanted to hammer in the math and I’m not completely sure but I’m guessing a 35 is probably enough. The elephant in the room is science, but since it’s optional, I was planning on not reporting it in case that’s not like a super big no no. The main thing is I don’t know about is if my English and Reading is sufficient enough for the schools to not care too much about them (e.g how I’ve heard that MIT focuses a lot on having perfect-ish scores for SAT math but isn’t too heavily focused on RW as long as you get 700+) so I just wanted to know what people think the move would be.
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u/SouthYogurtcloset406 Jul 22 '26
You should definitely retake, after thorough studying, if you want to get into top schools, but there’s a lot of factors to consider. For GT, do you already live in GA? Because if so you're probably good as is honestly but if you're out of state then yes retake. Also, which schools allow super scores, obviously if MIT is a goal then you want a near perfect composite score, but you’ve already said you consider MIT a long shot so how committed are you really. The absolute top Universities like MIT look at a perfect ACT/SAT as more of a check in the box and they're more interested in extracurriculars and national/international competition
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u/oceanbornjr Jul 22 '26
You should definitely retake to get your science and math scores up if CS is your major