Superscoring: Will they combine the SAT with the ACT?

Test Preparation
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<p>Many of the colleges that I am applying to superscore. However, say I get a 600 (a good score, for me) on the math portion of my SAT and get a 34 on the reading portion of the ACT. Will the colleges convert (or at least take into account) my highest scores on my ACT and superscore them with my highest SAT scores? Or will they only look at the SAT or the ACT to superscore?</p>

<p>Thanks guys :)</p>

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<p>If you submit multiple ACT tests to them, they’ll take the highest composite–they only look at composite, I believe, so they won’t even pick and choose between the sections. If you submit multiple SATs to them, they’ll take the highest of each section. Then they’ll have a composite ACT score to look at and a composite SAT score to look at. They will not mesh the two together, though.</p>

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<p>There are a very small number of schools that superscore the ACT (that is, they consider only your highest subscores from all your ACT sittings and assign you a new composite based on them). Many schools superscore the SAT. If you submit both ACT and SAT results,after doing whatever superscoring they do, some schools will consider both test results separately. Others will consider only the results of test on which you did better overall on a composite basis. I don’t know of a single school that mixes and matches your best subsections as between the two tests.</p>

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<p>Generally if you submit both SAT and ACT, colleges will use that of the two they believe is the better for you in evaluating admission. They do not mix and match ACT and SAT score sections. </p>

<p>There is one exception I am aware of to that, Rose-Hulman, which superscores your combined ACTs and SATs. On the SAT it uses only the math and CR section for admission and on ACT, it uses only math and Eng section (yes, that engineering school ignores science). If you submit both ACT and SAT, it will use for admission your highest math from the two tests and the highest score between your SAT CR and ACT English (it uses a conversion to determine highest). Thus, e.g., considered for admission could be your 34 math ACT and 740 CR SAT.</p>