Merit Money With ACT Scores

<p>All the discussions I have seen talked about merit money based on SAT scores. Do colleges not consider ACT scores with giving out scholarship money?</p>

<p>Yes Southern schools do, and I presume Midwestern ones do as well. Georgia and Florida may be exceptions, but I bet they do ACT conversions. I don't know about merit scholarships at schools outside the usual ACT states. Some schools do Nat'l Merit altogether, they wouldn't use ACT of course.</p>

<p>For example, at the info session at Duke last spring, they said the average ACT score of their merit winners (this would be graduating class of 03) was 34.</p>

<p>Cangel, can that be right? I googled Sat+ACT+conversion and got the following-1510-1550,1510-1560,1500-1540,1520,1530. All seem really high for average merit aid awards anywhere-even Duke. I think that is top 1% or better of all ACT test takers. I am a little surprised at that 34 average figure. Are you sure that wasn't for their top awards?</p>

<p>I looked and found at least one stat which showed Duke's 75th percentile SAT entering class 2003 was 1520-so maybe that's right. From looking at the stats , I am wondering whether there is an SAT bias ? When they "convert" the ACT to SAT there appears to be some variation and I wonder if that variation works in favor of SAT takers when the school is predominately a SAT school. Huh? I'll try and find out a little more. (I'm flexing.:( Secret code for they beat the beejeezus out of me yesterday.)</p>

<p>S submitted only his ACT score and was awarded a half-tuition merit scholarship.</p>

<p>Lasy year my S only submitted his ACT score and had lots of merit offers, Each school is different. Puget Sound takes the highest math and highest English ACT and converts it to SAT and then compares for scholarship purposes. That is not the norm however.</p>