<p>how do colleges compare act to sat scores? Do they use the scale online to compare it or do they only compare students' ACT scores with other students' ACT scores while juxtaposing all the sat scores together?</p>
<p>Many have their own conversion tables which may or may not be the same as you now find as the latest coversion table on the College Board's site. On the other hand many do not convert but rely on their own historical admission ranges for each test. Also note that some who do convert, e.g., GTech, use only the ACT math and English subscores to convert to a SAT math and CR score and compare scores on that basis.</p>
<p>what do ivies and UCs do?</p>
<p>......bump</p>
<p>anyone...?</p>
<p>more answers would be helpful</p>
<p>My HS counselor had a table equating ACT to SAT scores. It looked kind of like it may have come from Collegeboard or something?</p>
<p>forget i even asked</p>
<p>both are normal distrubutions so they convert them using z-scores (x-the mean/the std. dev) to a standard normal distrubution and compare them using that</p>
<p>Ivies probably see if applicants fit into the SAT range and ACT range separately depending on the test they took. On collegeboard they say for each school, including ivies, what the range of SAT and ACT scores of admitted students (or is it matriculated?) have. I believe for many ivies it is 30-34 composite for the ACT, and the SAT has its own ranges for each section.</p>
<p>I dont think they compare per say...i think they look at percentiles and do stuff that way</p>