Anyone accepted into an ivy do better on SAT than ACT?

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<p>I started this thread on the Columbia forum in order to get more views (and hopefully replies). Threads on the SAT/ACT forum accumulate too quickly. </p>

<p>Anyway... anyone would like to answer my question?
If your answer is a "yes," do you mind explaining why?</p>

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<p>Sorry for my horrible syntax…
C’mon, it’s friday!!</p>

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<p>Well, I did at first. I started with a 2060 and 32. Applied with a 2230 and 34. So idk, but they’re close. </p>

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<p>Mine were virtually identical. But I do know people who got in with just the SAT.</p>

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<p>Well I know a couple of people who were accepted with just the SAT… They did not bother to take the ACT…</p>

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<p>Not sure what’s your question. Can you rephrase it?</p>

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<p>I think he’s just asking if people tend to get into Ivy League schools with higher sat than act scores. </p>

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<p>I’m guessing OP is trying to gauge if he/she should take the ACT. Please keep in mind that the collegeboard conversion table may not be used by each college, MIT is one example. Let’s say you get ACT=33, that might NOT be viewed the same as 1460 in the SAT. MIT has its own history of what ACT score is acceptable based on its student in the past.
<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’ll rephrase my question in order to clarify myself: Has anyone performed WAY better on the SAT than on the ACT and still got accepted to a top-tier school (like the ivies)?</p>

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<p>Well, that wouldn’t be common anyway. They tend to get similar results. Getting a 2300 and a 28 would just be weird. Something else must have interfered. Even if that did happen, the ACT wouldn’t need to be sent, or vice-versa if the scores were switched.</p>

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<p>If one performs better on the SAT than the ACT, then why would one send the ACT score anyway. Only at Penn where it does require to send all scores(SAT and ACT). Most students tend to perform better on the ACT vs the SAT. There are less than 400 students with perfect SAT(one sitting) vs less than 800 students with perfect ACT.</p>

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<p>2050 sat 23 act</p>

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<p>@jayivy
WOW! Are those your actual scores? If so, that is a big gap! Did you prepare more for one over the other?</p>

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<p>I actually had some tutoring for the SAT, yes, but the ACT was just horrible for me. It might be because I had been exposed more to the SAT prior to the test dates than the ACT. And also, I did not know anything in physics which might have affected my score.</p>