Junior with a 1580 SAT (800 Eng; 780 Math) which she will submit. Should she also submit ACT score 35 (33 math, 36 everything else)? Does the ACT complement the SAT and strengthen her application, or does the slightly lower math score on ACT detract? (Desired major = biochem).
The concordance for the 35 is 1540 (1530–1560) and the 33 math translates to a 740–750. There’s absolutely no reason to submit the ACT score.
https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/ACT-SAT-Concordance-Tables.pdf
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Thank you!
In statistics, the high ACT score would be known as substantiating. That is, it needs to be only in the vicinity of the SAT score (by concordance) to add enhancing information. If desired, your daughter may want to submit it on this basis. However, based on the narrower methods of college admissions (in contrast to those of statistics and social sciences in general), your daughter would be likely to do equally fine, or perhaps better, by submitting her SAT score only.
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The sometimes claimed “send other scores to ”support” or “verify” the higher scores” has no merit, IMO/E. When various AO’s have been asked about superscoring, reporting multiple scores, etc., at sessions I’ve attended, the near universal answer was that the school’s technology took care of all the filtering/superscoring and the candidate data sheet they received has one score.
(Other than the very few schools that require all scores)