this is probably obvious to everyone else. sorry. I just looked up something on my West Point Portal. I just noticed my new scores from my ACT test that I just took in September were posted ! I didnt even know the results and have not gotten the results in the mail yet but it was already posted on my West Point Portal. I suppose that every answer must have been B (my lucky guess letter) because I raised my ACT score significantly! Should I email my Admissions Regional Commander with my new scores or assume that he saw them since they are on my portal?
Might be the dumbest question ever...
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Congratulations on the improved scores! If they are on your portal, then you can assume your RC has access to them and they will be seen by the board/counted in your Whole Candidate Score. If you've been working with the RC directly, it wouldn't hurt to call them to his attention. However, if you've been working with a Liaison Officer, I might let them know instead.
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Dumbest question ever? Hardly. I doubt you'd even qualify for the regionals of America's Got Dummies.
By the way, for the benefit of other aspirants, what did you do to improve your ACT score?
Over a period of many tests:
English: went up 6 points
Princeton Review Cracking the ACT English section. Page by Page.
Math:
went up 3 points
No prep-just took the test over and over and looked for patterns -got a 36
Science:
went up 6 points
Never really figured this one out-sat down once with my chem teacher but each test my score was up and then down each test. I think it was more dumb luck (and guessing B again and again)
Reading
went up 12 points (Im not kidding-this is not a typo)
I basically spent the summer filling out my applications and reading (and working). I really struggled with this section and did the most prep. I honestly took 20 practice tests-I dont think they helped much. what worked: My AP Lit teacher told me that If I read all of the books/magazines on his list he guaranteed I would raise my score at least one point for every book. It more than worked:
(1) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (great book)
(2) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (maybe the worst book ever-I kept falling to sleep-it is awful-terrible)
(3) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (pretty ok)
(4) God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
(5) Consider the Lobster & Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
(6) Chaos: Making A New Science by James Gleick
(7) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (science book written for non scientists really good)
(8) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (great book!)
(9) Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (worse than it sounds-boring-terrible)
(10) Magazines like The New Yorker, Economist, and The New York Times
English: went up 6 points
Princeton Review Cracking the ACT English section. Page by Page.
Math:
went up 3 points
No prep-just took the test over and over and looked for patterns -got a 36
Science:
went up 6 points
Never really figured this one out-sat down once with my chem teacher but each test my score was up and then down each test. I think it was more dumb luck (and guessing B again and again)
Reading
went up 12 points (Im not kidding-this is not a typo)
I basically spent the summer filling out my applications and reading (and working). I really struggled with this section and did the most prep. I honestly took 20 practice tests-I dont think they helped much. what worked: My AP Lit teacher told me that If I read all of the books/magazines on his list he guaranteed I would raise my score at least one point for every book. It more than worked:
(1) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (great book)
(2) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (maybe the worst book ever-I kept falling to sleep-it is awful-terrible)
(3) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (pretty ok)
(4) God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
(5) Consider the Lobster & Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
(6) Chaos: Making A New Science by James Gleick
(7) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (science book written for non scientists really good)
(8) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (great book!)
(9) Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (worse than it sounds-boring-terrible)
(10) Magazines like The New Yorker, Economist, and The New York Times
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Looks like your hard work put you in a position to succeed. Clever guy, your AP lit teacher. Good luck on your application (and give Virginia Woolf another shot down the road).