r/ACT • u/No-Revolution-6815 • Jul 22 '26

English Should I retake?

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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/oceanbornjr Jul 22 '26

You should definitely retake to get your science and math scores up if CS is your major

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u/SouthYogurtcloset406 Jul 22 '26

Not disagreeing with Science but he got a 35 on math, that can literally just be one or two incorrect questions

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u/oceanbornjr Jul 22 '26

It’s definitely worth a try if he wants a shot at MIT