Send both. They are both beneficial to you and you would want admissions officers to see your success with each.
These are not contrived accomplishments, being able to demonstrate this level of success is meaningful in my opinion.
IMO with the elite schools you never know what piece of information may tip the scales in an applicants favor.
I would personally submit both (2 strong scores are more impressive than 1, and I agree with @GreatKid’s comments above), but I think it’s largely irrelevant. All your scores do is check off one element for admissions committees, and both 2350 SAT and 36 ACT are more than good enough to do that. No one will get rejected on the basis of either score - but no one gets admitted solely based on their test scores, either. It’s a holistic process. Focus on the other aspects of your application. A little humility training might also go a long way.
@renaissancedad to be fair to the OP, there are plenty of colleges that would welcome a 36 or 2350 applicant on those numbers alone, humble or proud, saint or a jerk – but it goes to reason that the OP is looking for the uppermost limit of schools that would accept him/her. And the OP had better follow your advice for those…
@Erin’sdad “It seems there were 1400 36 scorers and about 300 who scored 2400 last year.” If you are correct that proves my point. It seems there are more than 4X as many people who got a 36, therefore it is less rare and less valued. I would imagine it is still a great score. Or perhaps the reverse is true, a 36 is valued but a 2400 being rarer is valued more.
Also my quote was taken out of context since I was responding to T26E4’s hyperbole.
" For a fair comparison, you need to look at 2350-2400 in SAT…I doubt you know the numbers of either anyway." What numbers do I not kknow @billcsho why do I have to look at 2350. My point was about a 2400, not a 2350 and from what I recall when I was looking up my own scores a 2350 is def not a 36, especially since in some score charts a 2320 is the upper range of 34.
Send both, obviously!
@SaphireNY It seems you deleted the key words when quoting me for a reason. ACT 36 is not corresponding to 2400 in SAT but a narrow range near 2400 which varies depending on the school, that is the exact reason you cannot just look at 2400.
I have NEVER heard of the correlation changing based on the college. So Columbia and Princeton for arguments sake view a 35 correlated to a 2350 differently? What do you base this on?
I thought the correlation was done by the College Board and by ACT. Then a bunch of places try to do it but it is meaningless.
So at one school it is better to have a 35 and at another it is better to have a 2350? That seems odd. If that is the case then colleges do not treat the SAT and ACT the same, which is what I said to begin with. Is there anyone that values the ACT more than the SAT
CB did perform a correlation but that doesn’t mean schools use it. They use their own data.
Take it again. See if you can do better,
Cue sarcasm meter.
@SaphireNY That is the case. Some schools only use certain section scores for the conversion instead of the full composite. ACT.org and CB have their own chart and each school may use a different chart for their preference. Here is one for UT Austin:
https://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/ACT-SATconcordance.html
If you have never heard of it, now you do. In your post #23, you did mention " in some score charts a 2320 is the upper range of 34". So you are aware of the different conversion charts and yet you said " NEVER heard of the correlation changing based on the college". Just wonder where do you see the different conversion charts then? LOL.
Random web sites for organizations offering study services, ACT and SAT Board. I did not make a study of it and have never came across any evidence that top schools had their own metric and frankly was never sure if I should retake for a 34 but simply decided I could not be bothered.@billcsho I never made a study of it. Interesting article, not from the area so did not consider UT. I will send it to my cousins who are taking SATs this year. One thing that always confused me. From personal experience and everything I had been told, the ACT English is the most “studyable” section of the test. ACT reading is studyable but not to the same extent. Plus to me ACT English was really the SAT writing section. So whenever entities compare scores why do they use English and Math instead of English and Reading or a combined average of English and Reading since according to this article that is what correlates?
It is not clear to me why they use the English section score more often than the reading in ACT. The writing score in SAT can be affected by the assay score drastically and it is the relatively newer section score in SAT. So by convention and backward compatibility, many schools skip the writing score in SAT.