<p>I've seen a few threads asking for what a good conversation would be. Here's the one that the UCs use which is probably pretty standard.</p>
<p>[ACT</a> (examination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_(examination%5DACT">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_(examination))</p>
<p>careful about wikipedia. random people can edit it. (that doesn't mean all of it's bad tho')</p>
<p>wikipedia states incorrectly how the UC's use that chart. UC's take the converted scores of [(science + reading + math)x 0.67] + english/writing to get a SAT score.</p>
<p>wikipedia just took the equivalent of the composite and multiplied it by 3. -_- </p>
<p>it's a good generalization, but i wouldn't follow it too closely.</p>
<p>wait, how do the UC's do it? what do you mean by the 'converted' sci/rdng/math score?</p>
<p>also, do you have a link for that info?</p>
<p>its on the bottom where all the sources are, i verified it.</p>
<p>It compared the UC scores given to each score on both tests.</p>
<p>vc08, go here: <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html</a></p>
<p>near the bottom of the page, they give the UC score for respective ACT scores. so you take your subscore from science, reading, and math, find their UC score, and find hte matching SAT score to that specific UC score. you add all three SAT scores together, multiply by (2/3), and then add the english/writing converted SAT score. you now have a final SAT score out of 2400.</p>
<p>haha does that make sense? if not, all the information is on that UC page.</p>
<p>are you sure that's the same chart they use for the conversion, not just for the 'UC score"? like they use the exact same formula only w/o subject tests?</p>
<p>thanks so much!!! you actually explained it really well. one Q though: by english/writing, you mean the combined score with the essay part included, right? so the English part by itself is never used?</p>
<p>yeah the english with the essay. and i don't think the regular english would be used because the essay "gives a representation of your writing abilities" (LOL I DON'T THINK SOOO). i think they use that subscore because the SAT writing score factors in the essay score also.</p>
<p>and i'm pretty sure that this is the conversion they would use becuase they derive the UC score from this equation.. so the SAT score you get from your ACT score would essentially give rise to the same UC score. that was my logic..</p>
<p>yup, i think you're right as well. thanks again, that was really helpful. happy new year!</p>
<p>The standard concordance table used by most colleges:</p>
<p>^but that's out of 1600 :(</p>
<p>and thats over 10 years old</p>
<p>The vast majority of college do not use the writing score....the other two scores are statistically the same.</p>
<p>See </p>
<p>SAT</a> ACT concordance - Google Search </p>
<p>for a little more detail. Basically, colleges decide college by college how to treat scores from each major brand of test. A Harvard admission officer implied that the Harvard admission committee just goes to the standard table on the Web, already linked to by bluebayou, when asked about this last May. In any event, each college knows how high is high enough to admit an applicant, when test scores from either test are viewed in the context of everything else about the applicant that appears in the application file.</p>
<p>The ACT folks have been working on an updated conversion. It was supposed to be finished in the fall of 2007, but is still not out. In the interim, the best alternative is to look at individual concordances done by individual schools or states. If you look at the above google search, it will lead you to a data set put out by the state of Florida that provides a concordance between the ACT and new 2400 SAT. Is the largest recent data set that I have seen, from a state that has a large number of both SAT and ACT takers.</p>
<p>The UCs "new" conversion table accounts for the 2400 scores, but the basis is still the same as the old 1600 concordance table. UTexas uses something similar. UIll uses their own conversion.</p>
<p>btw: the Florida table looks like they did nothing more than grossed up the old numbers to account for the new test, i.e., 1000 SAT old = ACT 21 = SAT 1500 new.</p>
<p>I don't understand why so many colleges are comparing the ACT english section to the SAT critical reading section. I mean, I can see a few similarities but surely the SAT's critical reading section has more in common with the ACT reading section.</p>
<p>I have a 35 ACT composite but the UC converted SAT got pushed way down to 2230 because my english/writing combined was 31 ><</p>