<p>SteveC - I understand there is no absolute relationship between the SAT & ACT but don’t you think it a bit odd for a person to score a 1690 on the SAT and a 28 on the ACT ? (Unless maybe the SAT was taken very early in the Junior year and the ACT taken early in the Senior year ???)</p>
<p>BTW my daughter was admitted to Pitt Nursing which, the dept. has told me, has only 110 openings for freshmen in Fall 2012.</p>
<p>YJ76</p>
<p>there are a lot of differences between the SAT and ACT which could cause a person to score better on one test versus the other one The ACT has a science reasoning test that is not on the SAT. The ACT has no guessing penalty for wrong answers, but requires the test taker to work more quickly and budget time for longer sections. The ACT covers trig which is not covered on the SAT. That’s just a few differences. I am not sure how they come up with the SAT/ACT concordance- I think it is based upon percentile results rather than the results of individual test takers. It may be that the SAT score, say, that puts a person in the 90% percentile of SAT takers is equated to the ACT score that puts a person in the 90% percentile of ACT.</p>
<p>I know it’s a lame excuse, but I just started my second cup of coffee. I just went back and re-read the entire thread. Forgive me. :o</p>
<p>If English is much lower than the 26 in Math, that could be your problem. Especially since nursing is more competitive than the University in general, as luvs2ski pointed out.</p>
<p>YellowJacket76 – I use the concordance from the ACT site, your second link, since it’s jointly published with College Board and is thus “official” to the extent that can be said of anything. 1690 is roughly equivalent to a 25 and 25 to 28 is three points. Now that I’m awake, I see what you’re saying and I would agree that it doesn’t happen every day but it doesn’t raise a red flag for me. </p>
<p>My S’s single-sitting ACT is one point higher than his SAT equivalent, but his ACT superscore is three points higher. He did well on math and science first time out and emphasized English and reading prep the second time to get the higher superscore. So you make a good point that there’s probably a back story.</p>
<p>YellowJacket76 - I did notice the 28 ACT score after I had posted that comment. </p>
<p>SteveC - my english and reading top scores only went up to a 24. I don’t do as well in english as I do the maths and sciences. </p>
<p>I really don’t think that my scores are going to get me in, but at least I can say I tried.</p>
<p>lpjc623 - Don’t give up too soon - we are all pulling for you. If you get bad news, ask your College Counselor to contact Pitt to see what else you could do to get reconsidered (retake the SAT, etc.). Have you considered test-prep tutoring to help increase your SAT or ACT score?</p>
<p>YJ76</p>
<p>Thank you for the motivation! I will do that if I get the bad news. I already did the test-prep tutoring for the SAT’s and it did help a good bit. I may be able to get the ACT score up if I take it again, but i’ll make that decision once I hear the news.</p>