<p>I got a 2020 on the SAT. That "converts" to about a 31 (closer than 30).
SAT-ACT</a> Conversion chart</p>
<p>But if you look at college profile stats, 31 seems to be low, but around the 25% percentile, for most top schools, whereas 2020 is considered completely unacceptable and you need about a 2100 to be at the 25 percentile</p>
<p>The conversion provided by ACT and College Board is meant to be a guide and colleges are not required to use it. Nevertheless, the issue you raise has nothing to do with the conversion tables. The difference you are seeing results mainly from the fact that those colleges superscore SATs, meaning they use highest section scores from multiple tests, and do not superscore the ACT with the result that the SAT scores reported are going to be higher than the ACT scores.</p>