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<p>I would take a 35/36 for the ACT over the 2250. Obviously, the 36 converts to a 2400 on the SAT, but you should also know that the 35 will land you in the 2300+ range.</p>
<p>Just letting you know that. The end decision is in your hands.</p>
<p>Why don’t you just send both?</p>
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<p>Technically, 2390.</p>
<p>There are ACT - SAT concordance tables on the ACT website. Look there and then make the decision.</p>
<p>you don’t have a 35/36 yet. i say take the ACT, see what you get, if it correlates higher % wise then send that score. but i wouldn’t make any assumptions as to what score you’ll get, if i were you.</p>
<p>Both of them are hard.</p>
<p>It seems SAT has a higher scaling than ACT, but generally, you can’t go wrong with either one – the difference is negligible. In your situation, I’d go with ACT if you think you can get a 35. </p>
<p>@silverturtle: I appreciate your time to put such a statistically-analyzed post, but I think some of your data, especially in the percentage areas are misinformed. Although it is understandable that colleges have cut-offs for lower SAT scores, you have to take the whole application as a whole. You make it sound as if a higher SAT score correlates to higher admission, but this is not the case. Usually those with higher SAT scores are more well developed in other parts of the application, so it is not the actual SAT score that gets them in, but their other activities; the SAT score simply correlates.</p>
<p>Also, hearing this, I’m assuming you have a very high SAT score. Perhaps you are researching too much into “your favor”, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>I think you are too focused on the scores and your list of schools may be too narrowly focused. We need to be conscious of making ourselves and our kids crazy in the college application process. I loved Swarthmore and so did my daughter. But if she doesn’t get in, we won’t cry. There are lots of other great schools. There is a lot to do going into your senior year, which I assume you are. You have to deal with SAT IIs, college visits, applications and essays, not to mention your grades which you have to keep up. You need to continue to have a life and get sleep. Right now, my poor child has just been diagnosed with stage 2 Lyme Disease and it gives me a different perspective on things. Plus my other kid has a learning disability and will be lucky if he can get his grades up enough to transfer to a four year college after three years (not two) at his community college…I am trying to shed load. You may not need to do it as much as we do, but if I were you, I wouldn’t be trying to improve on what are already excellent scores and concentrate on the other parts of the process and on your studies.</p>
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<p>No, all of those data are taken from the schools’ Web sites. What makes you think that the schools are lying?</p>
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<p>Actually, it is the case. That is a fact, unless the schools are lying in their data reporting.</p>
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<p>Perhaps you did not read the post very carefully, as I already addressed this issue:</p>
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<p>Take, for example, the acceptance rates at Brown for those with 33-35 and 36 on the ACT. If I were to estimate, I would say that confounding factors would account for maybe a 5% boost at most (36ers would probably have very slightly better GPA’s and Subject Test scores on average, but their EC’s, essays, and recommendations would likely have no correlation or a negligible correlation). However, we see a 119% boost!</p>
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<p>Yes, but I have been arguing for this conclusion long before I achieved my SAT score. </p>
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<p>I presented the data that led to my conclusion; they are freely viewable online. There is no room for bias to play a part in a fully transparent and statistically driven assessment. Moreover, how is concluding that scores positively and causally correlate with admissions rates in favor of myself? Your insinuation is illogical: conclusions reflect reality; they don’t affect it.</p>