<p>will they use both in making their decision? Or just the higher one? What if they are both in the same area?</p>
<p>I’d like to know as well. ACT of 35 and SAT of 2300… which will they look at?</p>
<p>I asked MIT this exact question, and they responded by saying that they will use only the better score in their decision.</p>
<p>Most schools look at the higher one. I’ve been to a couple admission seminars at top tier schools and they all say the same thing.
- They will only use the higher one (unless you’re using your ACT as an SAT II or something). Highest score being your SUPERSCORE (highest 3 sections added up) for SAT, and highest COMPOSITE score for ACT. (No mixing and matching for ACT)
- If you’re not sure which one is higher, send both, they’ll pick for you and not hold the other one against you.
- Each school has their own conversion chart so you can’t really tell whether a 35 is higher than a 2300 or not.</p>
<p>Schools that have said this- Penn, Columbia, Hopkins & NYU.</p>
<p>^Funny thing is: my SAT superscore is 2330, and my ACT composite is a 35. A direct conversion of the ACT to the SAT is a 2333 (which would round down to a 2330). So I guess I won’t be able to tell which score colleges look at :P</p>
<p>i’ve heard that your eastern schools prefer the SAT even though they do say that they only look at the higher score. </p>
<p>i do think that the sat is “harder” than the act though.</p>