I was scrolling through the Internet to find what my New SAT equivalent score would be for a 32 ACT, which I thought was anywhere between a 1450 and 1480 on the SAT. However, I’ve found quite a few links (including Prep Scholar) that state the equivalent score to be between 1410 and 1440.
What’s the deal? Are colleges still using the Table 7 Concordance chart that the College Board released in May of last year, or did the scales suddenly change for the Class of 2018? I’m so confused and stressed out.
It looks like the prepscholar table is not the same as the original college board concordance table although they reference that table. I am wondering if there is a new table or they took data from colleges. Quiet a few colleges released 50% percentiles of both ACT and SAT where it looks they took lower SAT scores and slightly higher ACT score. While this is not a concordance it can be used by some as such. I would love to hear too if there are some new data out there.
@changemaker44 It looks like the PrepScholar converter (as it is today) took the SAT-ACT data from the old, old conversation table from College Board from around 2009. I think someone made a mistake. This apparent PrepScholar error is a different question from whether the College Board’s 2016 concordance tables are accurate. Other than reports of colleges’ individual 2017 admissions data, I am not familiar with any conversion charts that differ from the College Board’s official 2016 concordance tables. If you have seen any besides the apparent PrepScholar mistake, that might be interesting to look at.
You have a 32 ACT which is a great score. Colleges will not need to concord that score- they know it’s a great score, it has always been a great score. There is nothing for you to be stressed out about, congratulations. Don’t worry about concordance of an ACT if you’re sitting on a 32.
What the College Board has done with the new SAT concordance and administration is shameful, hopefully they have lost a lot of business to the ACT. They rushed through a test that was not ready and had unpredictable results in the first administrations which is causing all these concordance issues. But again you don’t have to worry about that because you have a good ACT score.