<p>I scored a 34 in Dec. and I was wondering if this score places me in the higher end. Is it true that colleges on the east coast dislike the ACT?</p>
<p>Check your percentile...that is extremely high.</p>
<p>That is actually very good.</p>
<p>Most selective schools have an ACT range of 30-33 with HYPS in the 31-34 range. </p>
<p>Of course, the higher the better.</p>
<p>From the ACT percentile charts, 32 and above is 99%+</p>
<p>thanks for the help</p>
<p>Yeah, I just got into Yale with a 34. You're set, man. I heard the whole thing about the SAT bias with the Ivies, but I guess it's not such a big deal. I always to horrible on the SAT I and SAT IIs. Plus, if you take the ACT, you don't have to take the 3 subject tests!</p>
<p>thanks Aboo, any other opinions?</p>
<p>Not anything I can think of. Where are you looking to apply?</p>
<p>HYP, Columbia (letter of rec from Columbia doctor), Johns Hopkins, NYU, BC, Brown, Cornell, BU, Dartmouth, and Duke</p>
<p>Nice - good luck. I was going to apply to most of those schools, but after being accepted to Yale, I'm too apathetic to care anymore.</p>
<p>Yeah, a 34 is a good score.
I'm also applying to some of those schools (Columbia, Cornell, NYU, BU) with a 34 ACT.</p>
<p>i made a 29 and am looking to apply to Emory. I have a 3.8 uw gpa tho...is that goode enough?</p>
<p>so if you applied to yale with a 34 act, how does that translate to sat and sat2's? im just gonna take all tests, but if i do well on act should i still send in sat scores? (if i did bad on the sat's)</p>
<p>You can google on ACT SAT conversion and see how a score on one translates to the other test.</p>
<p>I don't agree with the conventional wisdom that east coast schools dislike the ACT. That used to be true, but it doesn't seem to be true now. Colleges are free to specify one test or the other, or to say they prefer one, but nearly all say they are indifferent. They use the conversion formula if they are more used to one test or the other. I haven't made a study of the subject, but in years of having this discussion on different lists, I've only seen one name school identified (Princeton) that still has an express preference. Among east coast schools, my daughter was admitted to Brown and UNC-Chapel Hill (nonresident) with ACT scores and no other testing at all.</p>
<p>Just to clarify something else -- only some schools will accept the ACT as a substitute for SAT IIs.</p>
<p>ACT/SAT Conversion Charts
<a href="http://www.spartanburg6.k12.sc.us/dhs/Guidance%20website/SAT-ACT%20Conversion%20chart.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.spartanburg6.k12.sc.us/dhs/Guidance%20website/SAT-ACT%20Conversion%20chart.html</a></p>
<p>well i am a junior and looking to go to possibly K-state and i have been taking ACT prep for the past three weeks and we took an evaluation the other day and it predicted my score to be 30 i have a 3.95 GPA currently but do i need a higher score to be accepted? WHAT are my chances do u think? honest opinions are very much appreciated. i take the ACT well since its two thirty in the morning i take it in eight hours and im freekin out</p>