<p>Do they look at both, or do they pick one over the other?</p>
<p>My breakdowns:
SAT: 800 W, 760 CR, 730 M SAT II: 740 Math 2C, 740 US History, 750 Biology M
ACT: 34 Cr, 33 M, 34 E, 29 S Composite: 33 </p>
<p>I'm not sure which is considered better than the other.</p>
<p>I’d think the ACT looks better.</p>
<p>really? according to the conversion charts, my SAT is better. But the individual sections vary.</p>
<p>The scores are close enough that it is immaterial. Send either or both, it won’t make a difference one way or the other.</p>
<p>These are all excellent scores. In the official ACT-SAT concordance, a 33 ACT composite works out to 1460 SAT CR+M, as opposed to your actual 1490. But the difference is negligible, and some colleges use their own SAT-ACT conversion tables which may be more generous to the ACT. If I were you I’d probably send both sets of scores, The only possible weak spot is that 29 on ACT Science, which pulls what would otherwise be a 34 ACT composite down to a 33. That section is not really so much about substantive science, more about making inferences from charts and graphs. I don’t know how much colleges care about it—probably varies—but I don’t think your 29 is going to keep you out of very many schools given the strength of your other scores. If you’re worried about it, though, I’d just send the SAT scores which are uniformly quite strong.</p>
<p>thanks for the great advice!</p>