Yeah its strange but giving me hope haha. My friend got into business during the dec.16th wave and I plugged his stats into the business model and his score was a 2.8 or something. I plugged mine in for natural sciences and it gave me 3.1. CNS puts less emphasis on rank, because its less competitive than the other schools.
ok…mom here…could you please spell out this equation for me? thanks
Go to message 2 above and follow the link. The formulas are on the last page.
Did anyone get a clear answer from admissions? The rep I spoke to said that “engcomp” in the ACT formula is a composite score of the English score and combined English and Writing score. Has anyone seen “engcomp” used to stand for that or something else?
The rep used the word composite a lot. I wasn’t always sure if that referred to the overall ACT composite score or this “engcomp.” So, after all that, I’m still confused…
@PokeyJoe, I never got a clear answer. I asked admissions, who told me EngComp = english plus writing. Then I said, so you don’t consider the ACT reading score? And they said, we consider all the scores. Which makes no sense to me - I don’t see how reading factors into the AI equation.
Yes @Austinwannabe. I got the “we consider all scores” too. The ACT has 5 parts: English, Math, Reading, Science, and Combined English/Writing. I think the rep I spoke to was saying “writing” when referring to Combined English/Writing. So the statement made was something along the lines of “engcomp” being a composite of both the English and Writing scores. (Very confusing) I asked if science and reading were taken into account. She said “all scores are considered.” Maybe they are looked at but, just not in the formula.
How do they use the formula if your hs does not rank and why is the first number negative? For computer science do they use the natural science formula or engineering? I do realize compsci is in the college of natural science but I’ve heard they might use the eng formula. So confusing.
Someone said they take the average GPA reported by your school to come up with an estimated rank for you.
@SweetTea - If your high school does not rank, they will take your GPA and estimate a class rank based on your class profile (number of kids, average GPA, etc.)
What do they do if you send in both ACT and SAT scores?
@bigwalk - they’ll put both scores in the equation and use the test that will give you a higher AI