<p>people who send in sat scores tend to score higher, which increases your competition and puts you in the middle.
people who send in act scores don’t score as well, which decreases your competition.</p>
<p>I guess the basic problem with ACT/SAT conversions is that the SAT is by nature more precise - in other words, a broad range of SAT scores have to equal one ACT score. Aaand I guess most people who apply to Yale take the SAT? Lol I really don’t know.</p>
<p>You’re missing the essential point. Don’t worry about what an ACT score “converts” to on the SAT scale or vice versa. What matters to an admissions committee is how well you did on either test vis a vis the population that took that test. In other words, an admissions committee is not going to look at an applicant with a 32 ACT composite score and think: “Well, that only converts to the --th percentile on the SAT.” Instead, the adcom is going to think: “This kid had an ACT composite score of 32. We don’t see that very often because a 32 is the 99th percentile on the ACT. This kid scored better than almost all of the other 1,400,000 kids who took the ACT this year.” Same analysis goes for the SAT. Remember that the myth that the ACT is easier than the SAT is just that – a myth. About 1/3 of ACT test takers do better than they did on the SAT, about 1/3 score the same, and about 1/3 do worse.</p>
<p>so in other words, I am at the top of the pool in terms of testing if you look at my ACT, even though my SAT is nowhere near the top of the pool?</p>
<p>I would send in only the ACT – all colleges consider the two tests (ACT and SAT) equally in the admissions process. Remember, however, that some colleges may also want SAT II subject tests for certain majors – be sure to check on that.</p>