To set up the submission of your ACT scores before you take the test, visit the ACT website at ACTstudent.org. Click on "Registration" at the top of the page. Click on "Sign up online" and create an account. If you are younger than 13, you must register by mail.
Review the College Code list to obtain the reference number for the colleges and universities to which you want your scores sent.
Type the college code for as many as four universities into the fields provided.
Click "Send your scores" on the ACT website. Use your ACT registration account or create one by clicking "ACT Web account" under the "Ordering options" heading. You can also click "Download a PDF copy of the request form" or "Send a letter of request," or you can use the telephone service, which is for priority reports. If you select the online request method or use the phone service, you need a credit card to pay the fee for sending the scores.
Click the "Sign Up/Log In" box in the middle of the page. Click "Send Your Scores" and select the test center where you took your exam, the test month and the test year. Enter your ACT identification number.
Obtain the college codes for the institutions you want to receive your scores and enter them in the fields provided. Request that your scores be sent to those schools and pay the appropriate fee.
Review the admission requirements of the colleges to determine whether you are required to send in the forms yourself or whether you can have them sent directly from your high school.
Visit your high school guidance counselor. If you are required to send the transcript yourself, ask her to print an official transcript and to seal it in an envelope. If you are required to have your high school send the transcript, give the guidance counselor the information that she needs to send the transcript.
Mail your high school transcript to the colleges along with your application. If your school sent the transcript, follow up with the colleges to make sure that they have received it.