<p>How do Princeton view ACT scores in the admission process? Do they convert ACT into a specific SAT score and then just look at the highest SAT score?
Thanks.</p>
<p>I think they convert...either way you want to submit your highest score.<br>
Note that you need the SAT as well unless <em>all</em> the other schools you applied to used the ACT (most colleges in the Midwest prefer the ACT, and it's the coasts that use the SAT, so this isn't too farfetched a scenario.)</p>
<p>Otherwise the admissions office will take both tests - the SAT and ACT - into consideration, or just the SAT if you didn't take the ACT.</p>
<p>Cibbir--I do not think that is the current Princeton policy towards the ACT. Here is a quote from the Princeton website</p>
<p>"A complete application includes official scores of the SAT Reasoning Test or the ACT. In addition, all applicants must submit the results of three different SAT Subject Tests. We ask students who are considering the study of engineering to include a math subject testMathematics I or Mathematics IIand a subject test in either physics or chemistry in their three SAT Subject Tests. Students interested in areas outside of engineering may submit any three SAT Subject Tests, preferably in three different subjects."</p>
<p>Princeton will accept the ACT (without the SAT I) no matter what other schools you have applied to.</p>
<p>Is there any benefit to taking both?</p>
<p>Although they technically accept both, based on the applicants from my school there seems to be a preference for the SAT. A guy with a 36 ACT was deferred ED in the class of '06, while a peer from the previous year with a 2210 SAt was accepted ED. They had similar background/GPA/ECs.</p>
<p>Pton rejects approximately 50% of the 1600 perfect SAT1s. Therefore, I think you can trust the admissions web site on accepting either with no preference indicated.</p>
<p>But if you look at it the other way around, 50% admit rate (for the 1600 scorers) for the #1 school in USA is pretty damn high!</p>
<p>Hmmm, well perhaps they do technically allow you to only submit the ACT and not the SAT. But my advice still holds - it will look weird if you don't submit your SAT unless all of the other places you apply to are Midwest schools/schools that use the ACT.</p>
<p>There is a benefit to taking both if you tank one; then you don't report the other.</p>
<p>Would a 35 ACT and subject test socres of 710, 760, 800 and 800 be sufficent? I don't feel like taking the SAT andit is too late to start prepping.</p>
<p>Hard to say. It isn't bad, but again the SAT is a glaring omission. They might think that you did poorly on it. You should have a justification for not taking it instead of "I didn't feel like it."</p>
<p>^ no they will not think that you did poorly on it because the SAT score report includes all previous SAT exams taken. they will not care that you didn't take the SAT.</p>
<p>Cibbir--I feel fairly confident that your advice is wrong (I am an alumni interviewer for Princeton). Princeton does not distinguish between the ACT and the SAT anymore and I think that collegehelpful's scores are absolutely fine and he/she does not need to take the SAT I.</p>
<p>In any event, because Princeton looks for SAT II scores (one of the issues that most often trips up applicants from this part of the country), the score report you send in will include your SAT I scores. (College Board score reports include both SAT I and SAT II scores on the same report.) But I trust the statement that if, for example, your ACT score were significantly higher than your SAT I score, the Princeton admission committee would evaluate your application in light of the higher test score. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p>for the most recently reported score profile of the Princeton entering freshman class. </p>
<p>As other replies have already noted, Princeton has the luxury of getting so many high-scoring applicants that it can afford to reject some applicants with peak scores. See the thread "How</a> do top scorers on tests fail to gain admission to top schools?" and particularly the post in that thread summarizing advice from parents </p>
<p>for other issues to consider besides test scores when preparing an application for a highly competitive college.</p>