<p>I just took the ACT and got a 34. I'm taking the SAT on Saturday.. should I still take it? I got a 2100 the first time on my SAT. I'm not really sure what a good score is.. any help would be appreciated. Is there some kind of conversion?</p>
<p>Anything 32+ is a good act score- your 34 is excellent.</p>
<p>in short, yes. I'm kind of in same position, w/ better scores on both. take the sat again b/c you'll have to send it to places that want sat IIs. your act is much better than your sat.</p>
<p>a 34 converts to about a 2280 on the SAT, which is better than your 2100. Almost all colleges accept both the SAT and the ACT, so there's really no need to try and get a better SAT score unless you want to.</p>
<p>But since you're already signed up for the SAT on Oct. 6, you might as well take it unless you can get a refund or don't feel like wasting a Saturday.</p>
<p>If you call the college board, they will cancel or switch the date for you instantly. There is a fee involved. I think it is $20. If you do decide to take the test, just make sure you are well prepared. It never looks good if the 2nd SAT's go down, and remember all SAT scores are reported to colleges. True, they take your highest scores, but trust me they are looking at all the scores. 34 is a fantastic mark, equivalent to a 1520/2280, and it is the 99%ile (at least for the June exam) which means that you scored better than 99% of the students that took the test and it doesn't get better than that. My d has the same & we canceled her SAT today. You could just report the ACT and not the SAT to colleges and they will see you as a student who scored a 1520/2280. Not sure if your hs reports sat on your transcript.</p>
<p>My daughter just received a 34 cumulative score on the ACT multiple choice, but the writing scores are not in yet. She told me to go ahead and send the scores to the colleges. She thinks that she received between a 10-12 on the writing and said that would not affect her overall score. (36-M 35-R 32 sci). She had a 2150 on the SAT and wants to try to get another hundred points spread between CR & Math. Her previous SAT and PSAT scores are reported by her hs on her transcripts. Is she wasting her time?</p>
<p>I think those questions can only be answered by the student. Some kids are very laid back; some are driven to succeed; others are perfectionists. My son quite with the same record: 1450/2170 SAT's; 34 ACT. (SAT II 700; 760). I don't think the scores were definitive in any admissions process. He sent them all. Acceptances at the schools that were the best fit, and rejections at those not such good fits. The scores did not seem to play a significant factor.</p>
<p>She is applying to some very heavy hitting Engineering schools. Some Ivy, most are top 20. Her state school and Georgia Tech are her safety schools and they are not safe by a long shot. She is in the top 3-4% of her class at a top 100 public HS and was designated a Distinguished AP Scholar at the end of her JR yr. </p>
<p>After reading many of the threads it seems like there are more brilliant students around than spaces in the universities and my daughter is merely average (how many students make up the top 1% anyway?)</p>
<p>It was so much easier when I was growing up. I applied to 1 university (U of Mich) I got in and it was the best school in my state.</p>
<p>Here are the links showing the number of class of 2007 students with each score on each test. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf</a> </p>
<p>(table 2.1) </p>
<p>An ACT score of 34 is at or above the 75th percentile level for every college that reports ACT statistics for its most recent enrolled freshman class. </p>
<p>You may as well still take the SAT. You can be quite relaxed and confident when you take it.</p>
<p>Yes, its good *******. No stop whining.</p>
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Is a 34 ACT good?
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No; a 36 is better. Retake it, or your won't get into any colleges except community college.</p>
<p>Great score mitzie921! Do you want to apply to MIT?
By the way, can you give us a breakdown of your score to show you which section you can improve in? :)</p>
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Great score mitzie921! Do you want to apply to MIT?
By the way, can you give us a breakdown of your score to show you which section you can improve in?
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Obviously he can improve on his lowest score. Does he really need anyone here to tell him that?</p>
<p>Oops! I apologize if I have given any unnecessary information/advice.</p>
<p>I was sort of in the same boat, but more extreme: 2060 SAT but 35 ACT (One Q away from perfect score grrrrr). Nevertheless i retook the SAT this morning because I'm sending in pretty good SAT II's, which have to be sent in with the SAT I. Lets cross our fingers.</p>
<p>But yeah, 34 in undoubtedly better than the 2140. If you don't care about SAT II's i would say you're golden, because thats going to be in the top half percentage of any school.</p>
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35 ACT (One Q away from perfect score
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<p>I don't think that's the way the ACT is scored. </p>
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34 . . . thats going to be in the top half percentage of any school.
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<p>An ACT score of 34 is at or above the 75th percentile of ACT scores for the enrolled class of any college that reports scores, and is at the 99+th percentile level for ACT scores nationwide, but those are distinct issues. There is no proof that that score is "top half percent" at any college.</p>
<p>^Token- I think that Jagged simply meant that one more question would have given him/her enough of a boost to raise the composite up one more point.</p>
<p>I.e. with me, my act is a 33.25- if just one of my subsections was one point higher, I would have had a 34; and to get that one point higher may have just been one question I missed.</p>
<p>Oh, okay, he presumably saw his ACT score report, which does (if the ones I have seen are like all others) report how many items were correct on each section.</p>