<p>Does NYU really have no preference between the SAT and ACT? I feel that I would perform much better on the ACT, but after the stats of people who got accepted, the majority have stellar SAT scores.</p>
<p>I want to do everything I can to raise my chances to be accepted ED to NYU, even if this means taking the SAT.</p>
<p>I had a 2030 SAT and a 33 ACT and got in, so I think they look at whatever you do better on.</p>
<p>I personally think a steller SAT score is a better academic indicator than a stellar ACT score, but that’s just me…maybe I’m biased. Just seems like whenever someone takes both tests, their ACT to SAT “conversion” inflated their projected SAT score. Like a friend of mine got an 1800 on his SAT but his ACT score translated to a 1950+.</p>
<p>But that doesn’t mean admissions officers prefer either.</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean it’s inflated.
Your friend probably just performs better on the ACT than the SAT. I know that I do. The format of the whole exams is just better for the way I think. The ACT compensates for not taking points off for wrong answers by giving you less time on each section.
I got a 1840 on my SAT.
But a 30 on my highest ACT, which is a 2030 converted SAT score.</p>
<p>i did worse on the act than the sat – the science portion killed me</p>
<p>but then i prepped for the sat and did not prep for the act</p>
<p>^Exactly. It just depends on the person.</p>
<p>I can honestly say that the ACT has forced me to think more quickly than I did before I started taking them (3 times).</p>
<p>yeah i think the sat is easier than the act…seems like you have to work a lot faster on the act</p>
<p>I got a 36 on the ACT and submitted just that - not my
SAT scores, which are terrible, by the way. Judging by the hefty merit scholarship they gave me, I’d say NYU was just fine with that. Go with whatever shows your strength!</p>
<p>i never took the sat, got a 29 on the act, got in, and got a pretty good merit scholarship (for NYU :D). i feel like NYU is one of those schools who doesn’t focus too much attention on standardized tests, which is probably the reason they have that new test policy. just try your best and don’t stress too much. test scores aren’t everything.</p>
<p>I never took the ACT because I was happy with my SAT score, so there was no need.</p>
<p>I honestly do not think they care. I got an 1830 on my SATs and a 31 on my ACTs, and I got into CAS, not LSP’d or anything.</p>
<p>i got a 31 on my ACT and got into Stern</p>
<p>My D sent all scores, that’s what NYU says they prefer. Let them sort it. She did better on her ACT, but not a ton…but her SAT was taken at exactly the same time as her PSAT (Oct Jr year) and she didn’t take ACT until the next summer, so it was an “upward trend”. Who can say what they want to see…why not send them both. They “promise” to “look at your highest score combination”.</p>
<p>They may claim they look at only the best scores, but I don’t really believe them. Sending bad scores makes no sense to me. The admission officer is going to see the scores. You think that officer is capable of completely disregarding scores he/she has already seen? I don’t. Only send your best scores that satisfy the req’t.</p>
<p>^ that’s not really true. i got pretty bad scores the first few times i took they act and i still sent them and got in. at one of the admissions meetings i went to they said something like, “if you were smart enough to get that highest score once, we wont hold lower ones against you.” plus, many times you have higher scores in certain sections and they like seeing that. basically they said they wouldn’t judge you for having a low score if you end up increasing it. it shows improvement.</p>
<p>Maybe. Still not worth the risk in my opinion. I just don’t see the benefit of sending in low scores.</p>
<p>The “should I only send in high scores” debate. I had an awful argument about that with my mom. I ended up sending all of them in to prove a point more than anything, and I got in so it didn’t hurt me.
If you think about it though, why would they use your lowest scores? They take the combined highest so their admissions stats look better. It’s not like they subconsciously think this person is worse than someone else because one persons lowest is lower than another persons highest.</p>
<p>Question: I’ve taken the ACT three times, but I don’t think my first will contribute at all to my superscore because my highest scores are from the last 2 I think (haven’t gotten Dec scores yet). Should I send all three if that is the case, or just the ones that they will make a superscore out of anyway? I want to save the $9 if I can.</p>
<p>Ohboi, I’d just send in the last two. Definitely worth saving the money.</p>
<p>from what college9666 said, I thought otherwise but I may be wrong. I’ve seen data that shows kids with 3.3-3.5 GPAs get into NYU with stellar SAT scores while kids with 3.8-4.0 GPAs not accepted because of their poor SATs. However, I do think NYU’s new testing policies will really give students a chance to show their academic strengths and give those students with excelelnt GPAs a chance to prove themselves. </p>
<p>The SAT is supposedly corrolated with how excellent you do in college so I think its pretty important, in addition to oher factors.</p>