Ari7

I know that everything you see on naviance should be taken with a grain of salt, but I saw something a bit odd with the schools I was looking at...

If you view the graph with SAT, my circle looks good- it shows I have a good chance of getting in or at least waitlisted

But when you view on the ACT graph....I don't even stand a chance!


Its the strangest thing, any thoughts on why that is? Is it harder to get in, sending the ACT- or maybe since I'm from the midwest its just more common and this results are skewed?
Any thoughts?

If you go by ACT its almost not worth me applying, so I shouldn't get my hopes up lol....I guess I want to believe the SAT score since I really like the school?

bobdylan4444

I would recommend that you go look up an ACT/SAT conversion chart online and then compare it to what the school's website says for its mid ACT and SAT ranges. Naviance is inaccurate because unless like 1,000 students from your hs have applied to the school, the statistics are going to be off.

And with regard to whether you have a chance, test scores are only one part of the equation. GPA, extracurriculars, recommendations, and essays are just as if not more important.

Ari7

As far as test scores go, I'm above the 75th percentile, but this is definitely not a safety school so I was trying to get a sense of test scores combined with GPA.
Its definitely not accurate because there are serious outliers on there you can probably explain as athletes or whatnot, but looking at the overall trends at the top...there are only about 200 applications
...I think part of the problem with ACT is that the column is so narrow you can't see all the dots on the line for test score

midwesterner

If your school is in an area that heavily favors one test or the other, there may be insufficient data on the less popular test for a true comparison. If kids regularly take both tests, they most likely retake one set of tests and not the other, pumping the scores higher and again. making the less popular scores unreliable.

Our area is so ACT-dominated (it's a state requirement) that the school doesn't keep Naviance records for the SAT. If they did, we would see the kind of off-kilter scores that you talk about.

Ari7

That would make sense....but I don't think that many more people submit the ACT than SAT, at least not tha tmuch that it would make a difference

Millancad

You can, I believe, just send your SAT scores. My SAT scores are much higher than my ACT scores too.

Ari7

Thats what I'm doing....but I'm just wondering if I should get my hopes up...

Ari7

Bumping again, because I'm curious, since I found out that SAT vs ACT submissions are about equal. So it seems a little odd...schools wouldn't favor one over the other, would they?