<p>DD is a Jr... wondering is they superscore ACT?</p>
<p>Miami does not superscore the ACT. For admission and review purposes, no preference is given for ACT or SAT, and Miami uses the highest test scores submitted. For ACT, the best composite score is used; for SAT, the best Critical Reading and Math sub-scores are used.</p>
<p>This makes no sense. Would love to hear the rationale. I’d read where Miami claims they cannot separate out ACT scores to superscore, but somehow, SATs are clean and easy to separate to superscore. This hints at a de facto bias for SAT for Miami for admissions.
Literally hundreds of other colleges/universities superscore. Wonder if in fact one finds that OH residents tend to take SATs over ACTs. Every school is free to make its choice on how it scores, but this is a weak argument at best for Miami. Surprising for such a strong school to be out in the middle-of-the-road on SAT vs. ACT.</p>
<p>The SAT is superscored because the collegeboard reccommends this due to the type of test it is. However ACT, Inc. does not suggest schools superscoring their scores (however, some do it anyway). This is mostly due to the variation in the ACT test from year to year and how the scores are calculated. For example a 33 in science on one test might be equivalent to a 27 on another (they work to make sure that the average score stays roughly the same form year to year). This does not occur to the same extent on the SAT. It has nothing to do with Miami being partial to Ohio students.</p>
<p>Justify it any way you want, but Miami’s quite unusual selectivity in super-scoring SAT but not ACT amounts to a de facto bias toward SATs. I haven’t found one, single other school that does it this way.</p>
<p>Dozens and dozens–including many (not some) very rigorous schools–now super-score ACT. </p>
<p>Miami is a great school, but by continuing to resist super-scoring ACTs, an increasing number of students (whose schools/areas primarily focus on ACT, not SAT) may well choose not even to apply to Miami and focus on other schools, especially given that an overwhelming majority of Miami’s academic scholarship money is focused on Merit-based aid using very specific SAT/ACT scores, with no exception.</p>
<p>It is a common practice for schools to super score the SAT and not the ACT.</p>