<p>Is there an official SAT-ACT conversion chart? Are there official conversion systems that the top schools use for admissions purposes? I remember at a Dartmouth seminar in my city that the rep said "we mix and match sections of every standardized test available, even between the ACT and SAT, to find your absolutely best possible score"</p>
<p>there must be a conversion table somewhere.</p>
<p>Those conversion charts are utterly impractical. The material and format of the ACT are significantly different than those of the SAT; thus it is imprudent to compare the two. I hope admission officers are shrewd enough to understand this. Personally, I would never assign an equivalent SAT number for an ACT score. The math section is vastly dissimilar and the time constraint is much more rigorous in the latter. Also, there is no akin science section, which tends to be the most dreadful and demanding section of all, on the SAT. All of these factors make it a fallacy to correlate both scores. Again, I believe the ACT (with punctuation and emphasis on facts/details) requires more diligent preparation than the SAT, which is more holistic and deceitful. Two completely different tests,and hence should be perused individually rather comparibly.</p>
<p>With all that said, yes. There are charts available and you can probably find them by searching online.</p>
<p>I completely agree with the above post. The two tests are practically opposites. SAT is more of an aptitude test as to how well you can do in college, while the ACT tests more of what you learned in HS.</p>
<p>here is a chart if you want though.</p>
<p>I know it doesn't make the best sense, but many admissions offices (including Dartmouth) use it.</p>
<p>Though the two exams test almost completely different things, I believe there isn't a huge problem with using comparison charts. Comparison charts (I think) use national percentages and equate scores. It guages how well a student did versus his peers.
For example:
10% of population get ACT score of 31 or higher
10% of population get 1920 or higher.
(numbers are wrong all wrong)
31=1920</p>
<p>wow the scoring is pretty harsh</p>
<p>Doesn't really matter whether they're impractical or not...the colleges use them, so you might as well know how the scores stack up.</p>
<p>I agree, they test different things, and I personally prefer the ACT because it's more straight-forward. I think the schools do take that into consideration, that the tests are quite different. They know the tests pretty well.</p>
<p>and as long as you don't completely rely on them, they do give a good idea of general comparisions.</p>
<p>the people at my school generally do about 200-300 points better on the ACT on conversion. They just seem to fail the SAT, since they hate english and such. They are pretty much incomparable. Like a lot of kids i know got like 34 ACT 1900ish SAT.</p>
<p>MMEI,</p>
<p>No. Only 2% of test-takers score a 31 or higher on the ACT.</p>
<p>chrisiskey,</p>
<p>I think he just made numbers up to explain how it works, he wasn't actually saying those were the values.</p>
<p>did that chart come out of the south carolina school system?</p>