<p>i realize that the UC's will convert the ACT scores to SAT but do they still have an untold preference toward the SAT?</p>
<p>edit...,..</p>
<p>huh? (10 characters)</p>
<p>wats 10 characters?</p>
<p>im guessing his original message was too short.</p>
<p>bump for the original question</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the UC's are still in favor of the SAT. Recently, it was UC who was complaining to the College Board about the old SAT not being an accurate measure of one's "college success", which prompted College Board to change it to the new version.</p>
<p>I'll never take the new SAT, but I personally loved the ACT much more than I ever did the old SAT. Take both of them and if both scores are decent, submit them both.</p>
<p>they could care less...between the two, it's a numbers game</p>
<p>they COULDN'T care less... yarr pet peeves! if your gonna say the expression, say it right :)</p>
<p>sorry, taffy. but I grew up in teh projects and went to an extremely poor performing school, no honors, no ap; we barely had college prep classes, so my grammar is not up to your expectations.</p>
<p>I honestly think they are biased towards the SAT and see the ACT for people who can't do good on the SAT. Just my opinion. That's why in California, the SAT is definately the dominating test as far as numbers of test takers, and is different elsewhere.</p>
<p>"I honestly think they are biased towards the SAT and see the ACT for people who can't do good on the SAT."</p>
<p>As should any level-minded American state. The SAT is the preferred test worldwide, and if the US were to ever become an integral part of the global community, the first step it would have to do would be to eliminate the ACT in its entirety.</p>
<p>This is precisely the reason that Chicago has faltered in status behind Los Angeles; why, at the rate the city's going, it'll surely be passed by both Houston and Phoenix (and, hopefully, Philadelphia).</p>
<p>I say this as a current resident of Chicagoland who's going to a university in an area free from the tarnish of the ACT (read: British Columbia).</p>
<p>prethumous, the SAT and ACT are only tests used by U.S. colleges. If you went to another country, then they have a different test for their colleges (such as the A levels in Britain). Of course, Int'l students applying to a college in the U.S. take the SAT.</p>
<p>I don't know how much the SAT has changed, since I only had to take the old one. But I can say that it had to have been my ACT score that definitely got me accepted to all the colleges I applied to. I had a 1330 SAT (760M, 570V) while I had a 30 ACT.</p>
<p>The thing about UC's is if it's mainly based on stats, how do get the ACT scale equivalent to SAT. The value of an ACT score could be like a range of 40-50 pts. Do they take the median of the range? Sometimes those pts can be valuable.</p>
<p>most schools, including the UC's, use CB's comparison table - actually, if you read the references, CB and ACT did a 'study' and this was the result (see page 36 of the link). </p>
<p>A 30 ACT is considered equivalent to a SAT of 1340, so vu-p's scores are consistent. </p>