According to the 2018 CollegeBoard-ACT concordance charts, a 1450 is equivalent to a 33 ACT. Will most colleges regard the two as equal, or is the 33 more favorable? I am aiming for schools like Cornell, Colby, etc.
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/guide-2018-act-sat-concordance.pdf
They are the same.
My understanding is that a 1450 SAT is equal to a 32 ACT score. If correct, then the 33 ACT is the better score.
But it can get a little more complex than that. To which schools do you intend to apply ?
Send both.
Please do not send both. There is a reason for this depending upon to which schools you apply.
@Publisher can you explain what you mean by your statement in #4? That is rather cryptic!
Sorry, just trying to help OP.
I personally think the 1450 is better. The SAT is generally considered to be harder. The ACT fulfills subject test requirements for some schools so that is a consideration.
@Publisher ok but other people are reading this too and might want to know what is the reason not to submit both? Because I would like to know and I’m sure others would too, so can’t you explain it?
I would submit the SAT, that is a harder test to score higher on and would be considered better IMO than an equivalent ACT score.
Actually, both ACT and SAT are considered equally by Admission offices.
Some students consider that the sat is harder.
Some consider the ACT harder because it is faster and includes specific subjects. But in reality, it’s splitting hair. Both work in th same way for top colleges: establishing a baseline.
A 33 is equivalent to a 1480, roughly.
If you’re applying for STEM and have high math and science scores, send the act. If you’re applying for humanities/social science, and have high Reading+ English scores or high EBWR scores, choose the highest.
My son got 1580 in the SAT and 36 on the ACT first try in both. The problem is that I requested College board to send the SAT scores and now I can’t change.
Ideas?
When you say the SAT is “harder”, do you mean “harder” like the June SAT (it was way easy, hence the terribly historic bad scales) or “harder” like August (some students had the test in advance)?
By the way, ACT 33 is the equivalent to SAT 1450-1480, according to the recently released Comcordance that both ACT and College Board produced.
It has to do with which scores a specific college or university sends to US News–even though both appear on the CDS.