<p>so i have seen ACT and SAT score comparisons and i am really not sure about something </p>
<p>a 28 ACT is equivalent to a ? SAT</p>
<p>at 2010 SAT is equivalent to a ? SAT</p>
<p>and HOW do you determine which to send in?</p>
<p>(FYI im going to post in the ACT prep forum as well.)</p>
<p>thanks :-)</p>
<p>Dude, use proportions. x/2400:Y/36</p>
<p>Plug in X and Y respectively</p>
<p>28 ACT : ~1870 SAT
2010 SAT : ~30 ACT</p>
<p>No, I don't think it works like that. They do have conversion charts, but they aren't exactly proportional.</p>
<p>Edit: Here we go, check this out.</p>
<p>SAT 2010 --> ACT 30
ACT 28 --> SAT 1890</p>
<p>alrite because when i look at a lot of the stats on the college board etc the ACTs always seem a lot lower than the SATs....maybe because the majority of the students enter SATs? Im not sure.</p>
<p>so i just wasnt sure if you had an ACT i.e. 28 and the college had a 25th percentile of 27 and a 75th of 30 and then for SATs....you were slightly LOWER in the SATs for that school's percentile, then would you enter you ACT even if it was, comparably, not TECHNICALLY as good as your SAT?</p>
<p>kind of confusing...yet im not sure.</p>
<p>"when i look at a lot of the stats on the college board etc the ACTs always seem a lot lower than the SATs..."</p>
<p>I think that's because kids who are disappointed with their SAT scores are the ones who try the ACT, but they just learn that they don't do well on standardized tests in general. In other words, the kids who ace the SAT don't bother with the ACT, making the average SAT scores look higher.</p>
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I think that's because kids who are disappointed with their SAT scores are the ones who try the ACT, but they just learn that they don't do well on standardized tests in general. In other words, the kids who ace the SAT don't bother with the ACT, making the average SAT scores look higher.
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<p>Hahaha, nicely said.</p>
<p>hah, I tried to make that not sound mean.</p>
<p>Dande1114, just sent both of them in and the school or schools will choose the best score for their decision.</p>
<p>goood call. thanks for the help everyone...happy thanksgiving!</p>
<p>That may be true in areas where the SAT is more accepted than the ACT.</p>
<p>Where I live, however, the ACT is what matters. An SAT score here means little, and only kids who wish to go to school somewhere out-of-state ever bother with the SAT. Of course, I’m not arguing which test is harder, or which is a better measure of skills necessary for college.</p>
<p>I don’t think that you can imply that the ACT is for people who suck at the SAT. I also don’t think that a high ACT score is anything to sneeze at, just like a high SAT score is nothing to sneeze at.</p>
<p>I don’t think they were trying to argue that ACT was worse than the SAT, just that people who don’t do well on one test tend to try the other to see how it compares, and since most of the kids on here are SAT-focused, they tend to try the SAT first.</p>
<p>I, too, live in a state where the ACT is revered far and above the SAT. I had to go to a school an hour away from my home just to take the SAT reasoning test and subject tests!</p>
<p>I’ve heard that about 1/3 do better on the SAT, 1/3 on the ACT and 1/3 score basically the same. SAT is the default here on the East Coast, but a lot of kids take both.</p>