<p>D and I were mighty happy to hear that WashU will use the highest subscores from your ACT just like most schools do on the SAT. Too cool.</p>
<p>Does anyone else know of other schools that do this? I want to say Michigan, but I could be hallucinating.</p>
<p>I verified this one on one with an adcom after the info session. That could make a big difference in D's composite as her remarkable 26 science score cost her a 34 composite. And she doesn't lose her 36 math. That is if she manages to pull it up on the 24th. Practice tests have gone very well and she's confident. If she does it , she has informed me she's through with standardized tests for college admissions. I don't really blame her. Hope springs eternal.</p>
<p>Puget Sound does as well, my D recieved a nice scholarship from them as they converted her math and english ACT subscores into SAT</p>
<p>Rats,arizonamom I was hoping for Math+English+Reading= Conversion to SAT. Because of course the only fair way to do it is to calculate it so it will help my kid the most. ;)</p>
<p>I would check as this was last year, I am not sure what they are doing this year. Congrats to your D-great scores!</p>
<p>Cur - Are you saying that they will use Math+English+Reading from one sitting - or they will take highest subscores from all sittings (including science) and then create a new composite score?</p>
<p>twinmom, my math+english+ reading=SAT was entirely a figment of my imagination, contrived by me to be a humorous response to arizonamom's UPS post. Forget about it. It was never real. (Although I wish it was!) Sorry.</p>
<p>What WashU does is not dependent on an ACT/SAT conversion. They simply take a student's best English, best math, best reading, best science from multiple settings of the ACT-add them together and divide by four for the "composite". Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>(It's really no different than most of the schools do with the SAT. I have often wondered why ACT students were not given the same luxury. Here, they are.)</p>
<p>Gotcha. I'm actually wondering why students can take (or retake) the ACT in September in some states, but in others they have to wait until late October. Makes no sense to me.
Anyone want to host a northeastern tester in September? (kidding...)</p>
<p>Curmudgeon,</p>
<p>Thanks so much for passing on this information. We visited Wash U last month but somehow this subject never came up. I wish that more schools did this. </p>
<p>Like you, I would love to petition to "eliminate" or revise the existing science section. It seems to have much more to do with reading graphs and charts at breakneck speed than it does with science. However, this doesn't seem too likely!</p>
<p>Cami, not to brag but D is pretty good at this science stuff and just blew the infamous "dewpoint" graph on her only ACT. (The graph was the talk of the ACT board for a while after that test administration. Plenty of kids with all other scores above 31 got toasted.) She missed all , or all but one of the questions, and flipped herself out for the rest of the test. As a Bio major (maybe) it's really galling to her. Said she just didn't understand the graph . She's primed for the next dewpoint graph she sees, though. LOL.</p>