<p>GC told us that some schools like UVA and Stanford will take one part from SAT, and another from ACT to get your highest score. If they are using your ACT verbal, is it just your reading or reading and writing combined?</p>
<p>I think you are confused. Some schools do superscore. However, they have to be from the same type of test. They don’t mix SAT with ACT.</p>
<p>I was told directly from our Furman representative in SC this summer that they would even take one part from SAT and one from ACT. Then at our “College Night” at school this week the GC said that now (I assume just recently) Stanford and UVA will do the same. Since reading is only 1/4 or ACT I was just curious to see if they only took that or combined the reading and writing.</p>
<p>What? I’ve never heard of Stanford and UVa doing this. It is nowhere on their website. I would be shocked if they did. I’ll call them on Monday and post what they say though.</p>
<p>Last year I found about 20+ schools superscore. However, I have never heard any of the mix SAT and ACT. I suggest you to call these schools and talk to each of them because I don’t know if it makes sense to mix SAT and ACT.</p>
<p>lol, you can’t mix ACT and SAT. they’re two different tests. it’s like talking about mixing green with chocolate. it’s absurd!</p>
<p>From UVA’s site: “Results from the SAT I or the ACT (including the writing portion). We use the highest score on each part of the SAT I and the highest composite score on the ACT.” So they superscore the SAT I but only look at the composite for the ACT. No indication of mixing.</p>
<p>From Stanford: “We will focus our evaluation of test scores on the highest scores available (from either the SAT or the ACT). For the SAT, we will focus on the highest Critical Reading score, highest Math score and highest Writing score available (from across test sittings). For the ACT, we will focus on the highest Composite score, as well as the highest Combined English/Writing score (taken from the same sitting), and we will be sensitive to individual sub-scores.”</p>
<p>If either of these schools are willing to mix ACT and SAT scores, they do not make it clear anywhere on their sites.</p>
<p>I cannot verify if Stanford and UVA mix the scores, but Georgia Tech does. I have talked to admissions officers and students to confirm this. At Georgia Tech, they apparently scale your SAT scores to ACT scores. Then, they compare section by section to your ACT scores. Writing->English, Math->Math, Verbal->Reading (Science is not included). They then take the higher of the two for each section and combine them to form one composite ACT score.</p>
<p>Elon specifically states at their info sessions that they will combine highest subscores from any test submitted…mix and match…</p>
<p>on another unrelated note, there are schools that report ACT math and ACT english in the common data set, but not ACT reading…I have always found that odd, but true…</p>
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<p>Correct, and I agree, it is stange.</p>
<p>Yes, some colleges take highest subscores from ACT and SAT (mixing the two). I can tell you that when we attended the info session for Ithaca College they suggested sending everything because they would mix the highest between ACT and SAT scores! </p>
<p>I suggest that you contact admissions for each school and ASK. Also, some of their rules can change regarding this as late as the summer before you apply. My son needed to contact one or two schools after the colleges decided what their policy will be, and they suggested calling back mid-summer.</p>
<p>NEmom: thanks for the Ithaca heads up; saved my daughter a phone call…maybe we should start a list?? (just thinking (typing) outloud)</p>
<p>Your welcome. Rodney, I thought that your D would be interested. Ithaca seemed very anxious to get all scores.</p>
<p>very unlikely that they mix and match</p>
<p>Mixing results across tests seems to be taking superscoring too far.</p>
<p>They’re two different tests; each tests different things. I believe people when they say that adcoms have said it; however, I think that’s just weird…</p>
<p>The Air Force Academy and Naval Academy mix and match. Navy only looks at the Verbal/Math of the SAT, and for comparison uses the English/Math from the ACT (and will use the best of each between the two). Air Force uses all 4 sections from the ACT, but will also substitute in the SAT math or verbal. West Point will only take the best from either test as a whole. Anyway, to answer the OP, of those schools at least, they use the English score from the ACT (not the reading), which really doesn’t make sense to me!</p>