Should I re-take the SAT to push it nearer to my ACT, or will admissions officers just look at the ACT and move on?
Both are excellent. No need for more standardized tests!
If you check the concordance conversions on the CB website, I’m pretty sure a 1500 is around a 33 composite score on the ACT.
And yes, you are set already with standardized testing! Congrats!
Forget the SAT! A 35 ACT is amazing. You are done. Thousands of students (wisely) , slipped the SAT this year because of changes, so ACT is best this year. Admission officers are perplexed by the concordance too.
I don’t know if admissions officers are perplexed. They’re not stupid. They’ll figure out how to interpret the new scores. That’s what the Concordance tables are for.
New SAT 1500 is the same as ACT C33 and Old SAT 1460. Not exactly rocket science.
The thing is that the rSAT is a different test (which Washington Post article correctly points out) from the old sat and ACT. The concordance tables just help colleges interpret the scores they are seeing in the context of something that is more familiar. A 1500 is not really equivalent to any SAT score or ACT score. Both a 1500 rSAT and 35 ACT are excellent scores. Too many people are unnecessarily obsessing over the concordance tables, imo. There is absolutely no reason to retake a 1500.
Helpful, @brian-scorebeyond, but “They”? It’s your site, right?
All colleges accept the ACT. This is a no-brainer…send the 35 ACT.