<p>When colleges receive an ACT score, do they convert it to an equivalent SAT score? If they do, do they convert the subscores by themselves? For example, would they convert a 36M, 36CR, to a 800M and 800CR?</p>
<p>Also, if you submit both ACT and SAT, and your ACT coverts to a higher SAT than the one you sent, do they just look at the converted ACT?</p>
<p>I heard they do convert in some fashion (though it probably depends on the school) but I'm not sure if they go down and convert the subscores. Could be wrong though...more opinions...</p>
<p>My daughter scored higher on the ACT than the SAT. She had one of the adcoms at a school she applied to send her an email asking about a "self-reported" SAT score which she actually had never reported and which was quite a bit higher than her actual SAT scores. Panicked that she had inadvertently reported an incorrect score (although she couldn't find any errors) she explained to him that she didn't believe she had reported such a score and that her actual SAT score was xxxx. She then received another email saying, "Whoops - it was us who had converted your ACT score to the SAT equivalent." So, yes, at least this one school converts! As far as subconverting, I don't know - and it didn't appear this school (USC) was subconverting. And, yes, I believe that they would just look at/use the higher score - that's what helps them in the rankings.</p>
<p>Though I don't know this, I can see schools in the midwest converting SAT data to ACT because that is where all their historical data lies. It is easier to see how you are trending compared to history that way.</p>
<p>Any other opinions?</p>
<p>I'm sure that some, perhaps many, do convert the scores. After all, the College Board has provided them with an official conversion table:</p>
<p>Well all they have to do is take your ACT score and divide it by 36, then multiply that by 2400 to get the SAT score</p>
<p>^nope that would be incredibly accurate because a)its scaled so you can't score lower than a 600 on your SAT></p>
<p>and b) the proportions are not quite the same. Adcoms have said they just use ant chart lying around. They only care about your relative score, not whether you have aa 2200 r a 2250</p>