<p>It has always irked me a bit that colleges give ACT composite score ranges but only the score ranges for each section for the SAT. Doing it by section seems to make people overestimate the composite score typical of an accepted student (not everyone falls within the range of every section). Is a good measure of the composite SAT range to convert ACT scores to SAT scores?</p>
<p>There is a conversion which you can google it. It’s everywhere so I will leave that to you.
I personally think the conversion isn’t really valid. First the math is way too easy for students who knows their math very well (come on it’s still algebra…)
Then you have a stressful CR sections which a lot of people hate it. </p>
<p>The ACT is more “comprehensive” and the questions are pretty straightforward. And where is the science section in SAT? There is none.</p>
<p>The reading - haven’t taken any ACT reading in my life. I only took a look at the math and science. </p>
<p>I felt that as long as you can master great ACT score, you should be in the top tier. But the admission staff don’t care about the argument behind this converison.
As long as you have the score, say, 32, they convert it, and say, 2100, okay, fine. I don’t remember the conversion on top of my head right now.</p>
<p>So are you saying that the ACT is seen as easier? I don’t know if I understand waht you are saying.</p>
<p>I believe he’s saying that the tests are too fundamentally different for them to be compared as directly as they are through the conversion tables</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the conversion does shows the range of score for the other exam, for that particular section. But it doesn’t show your ability in getting the same range of score on the other exam.</p>
<p>The admission staff will simply take the ACT (if you are going to submit that) score.
Sorry if I made a big convoluted statement.</p>