Is a 35 ACT really worth the same as a 2340 SAT?

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<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/satACT_concordance.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/satACT_concordance.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://collegeapps.about.com/od/satactandotherexams/a/comparesatact.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegeapps.about.com/od/satactandotherexams/a/comparesatact.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=864&type=ACT-LEARN%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princetonreview.com/college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=864&type=ACT-LEARN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The conversion charts in the links above consistently indicate that a 35 ACT is around a 2340-2360 SAT (~1550-1580 old scale). I took the September ACT and got a 35 composite (6 wrong in total) with 2 days of studying. I know for a fact that there is no way in hell that I would ever be able to get a 2340+ on the SATs (2190 in march, took a class and studied for 4 months), so are the conversion charts outdated to some extent? I'm aware of the fact that each exam is geared towards certain types of students, but I highly doubt that that can completely explain why there was such a drastic difference between my scores on both tests. Is it possible that the ACT is just plain easier, provided that you have good time management skills?</p>

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<p>It's up to each college to decide what to make of each test score. It's quite possible that issues other than test scores will be most important for your application. </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377882%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377882&lt;/a> </p>

<p>But not a lot of students get a score of 35 on the ACT, </p>

<p><a href="http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>(table 2.1) so a student who gets a 35 is to be congratulated and will probably have reasonably good prospects for getting into a selective college.</p>

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<p>It's a good enough score for you to stop worrying :)</p>

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<p>The ACT and SAT are two very different tests. I can tell you from personal experience that I took the ACT twice, and got a 33 and then a 34. I took the SAT once and got a 2340. The two tests don't necessarily equate.</p>

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<p>A 35 is fine for anywhere. The concordance tables you find on-line should be viewed only as a guide and not as gospel as many colleges that do a comparison create their own comparison chart and often they actually equate an ACT score to an even somewhat higher SAT than what those on-line tables show.</p>