SAT ACT Equivalencies FALSE?

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>So I looked into it a little bit more and here's what I found (I scored a 31 ACT this month and a 1960 SAT in April):</p>

<p>31 act (my score) = 1380 sat (<a href="http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/ACTtoSAT.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/ACTtoSAT.html&lt;/a> & <a href="http://www.ivywest.com/acttosat.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ivywest.com/acttosat.htm&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>31 act (my score) = 98%tile (according to my ACT early results)</p>

<p>1380 sat (equiv of my ACT score) = 93% (approx: <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanks.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanks.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>98% sat (same %tile of my ACT) = 1500 sat (<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanks.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/SATPercentileRanks.pdf&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>31 act SHOULD = 1500 sat if comparing by percentiles???</p>

<p>These are a few schools with unproportional SAT v. ACT admit rates (ACT
<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3853&profileId=6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3853&profileId=6&lt;/a>
<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=757&profileId=6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=757&profileId=6&lt;/a>
<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3736&profileId=6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3736&profileId=6&lt;/a>
<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=2354&profileId=6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=2354&profileId=6&lt;/a>
<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=850&profileId=6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=850&profileId=6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Comparing the equivalencies in percentiles versus the standard conversion table, a score of X in the ACT, compared to that score converted through percentiles to the SAT, is significantly higher than the score of the standard table conversions. The "lower" ACT scores (by standard table conversion) seem to be acknowledged by the colleges' admissions.</p>

<p>So the colleges don't use the standard table conversions, but instead look at percentile from what it looks like?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I agree that the College Board's concordances are off. It is my understanding that schools go with percentile rankings. It's always a good idea to check specific school's accepted SAT and ACT ranges and compare how they view the different tests...</p>