<p>Thank you. I find this all very confusing. I am used to the old SAT structure of exams. DD has taken first round of SAT, Bio 2 years ago and then Chem last weekend. She took the ACT yesterday just as an experiment. She came out feeling very good about the exam. Now should her results match how she felt, we have to figure out the value of her score. </p>
<p>Do schools truly consider the SAT and ACT equally? If so, then why do colleges publish ranges for all three components of the SAT( therefore writing) and for the ACT only the composite? </p>
<p>What constitutes a top score? She is looking only in the northeast and include some of the highly selective schools there. What would she need to get in?</p>
<p>What happens if you send both your SAT and ACT scores to a college? If the value of her ACT score ends up higher than her SAT score then will the presence of the SAT score bring her down? She has a very nice 780 on her Biology M. Would it’s visibility help?</p>
<p>Thanks for any insights.</p>