vijpenguin93

620 Math
510 Reading
490 English

1130/1600 = 25 on the ACT?
1630/2400

Will my SAT score be viewed as an equal to an ACT score of 25?

I earned a 23 on my ACT would I be better off sending my SAT score in? I heard English isn't viewed by most colleges on the SAT.

Anyways my main question would be, is my SAT score equivalent to about a 25 on the ACT and viewed as about a 25 by colleges?

Suleyman95

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Here are the SAT-ACT score conversions, as estimated by the makers of the ACT:

36 - 2390
35 - 2330
34 - 2250
33 - 2180
32 - 2120
31 - 2060
30 - 2000
29 - 1940
28 - 1880
27 - 1820
26 - 1770
25 - 1710
24 - 1650
23 - 1590
22 - 1530
21 - 1470
20 - 1410
19 - 1350
18 - 1290
17 - 1230
16 - 1170
15 - 1100
14 - 1020
13 - 950
12 - 870
11 - 780

Lemaitre1

By "English" I am assuming you mean the writing section of the SAT. A writing score of 490 is about average as is a reading score of 510 while 620 in math is well above average.

How much colleges use the writing score in admissions decisions is not well known at this time in my opinion. I know that the 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU) system do not use them at all and only use the total of your CR and M scores in its admission process. I have also heard that other colleges and universities give it little or no weight when evaluating applicants. While there is data that shows a relationship of how well students who get certain CR and M scores do in their college courses with a positive correlation between CR and M scores on the SAT and college GPAs, the writing test is new and it is largely unknown whether it has any value as a predictor of what kind of grades students will get in college. Until there is data showing a correlation between SAT writing scores and college performance it will not be seen as important as CR and M scores by most colleges.

einstein10

it's a 1620 not 1630 lol

vijpenguin93

haha my mistake. I got a 630 in math though I just made a typo.

Also I knew about the conversion charts what I'm asking is do most colleges discard the SAT writing score? So would colleges view my SAT score as a 25?

vijpenguin93

1600 36 1600
1540–1590 35 1560
1490–1530 34 1510
1440–1480 33 1460
1400–1430 32 1420
1360–1390 31 1380
1330–1350 30 1340
1290–1320 29 1300
1250–1280 28 1260
1210–1240 27 1220
1170–1200 26 1190
1130–1160 25 1150 <--------- I fall in this range. I am asking will colleges look at my SAT with the idea that the Math/Reading is equivalent to about a 25 on the ACT?
1090–1120 24 1110
1050–1080 23 1070
1020–1040 22 1030
980–1010 21 990
940–970 20 950
900–930 19 910
860–890 18 870
820–850 17 830
770–810 16 790
720–760 15 740
670–710 14 690
620–660 13 640
560–610 12 590
510–550 11 530

GreedIsGood

25 on the ACT and 1630 on the SAT are so close in score that it doesn't really matter. Also, at your level scores aren't a huge factor.

vijpenguin93

What do you mean at my level? haha sorry I don't really understand what you mean.

GreedIsGood

I just meant that if you were very competitive (2250+) and were applying to top schools like HYPSM, etc, things are more of a numbers game and that a small differential in the ACT score might actually make a difference.

However, your not in this position, and colleges tend to not focus too much on a mere test score and like to see other types of motivation, i.e. sports, music, art, etc. If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about it and, personally I would send both in because I think it shows more motivation.

Shrinkrap

"Until there is data showing a correlation between SAT writing scores and college performance it will not be seen as important as CR and M scores by most colleges. "

SAT Writing section score finally counts towards college admissions – Tutor Talk | Appelrouth Tutoring Services

"n the fall of 2008 analyses began to appear exploring the relationship between the SAT Writing score and academic performance in college. The largest single study was conducted by the College Board.

College Board psychometricians gathered data from over 150,000 students to determine which factors contributed and to what degree they contributed to collegiate performance (measured as Freshman GPA). The study revealed that a student’s high school GPA is the strongest single predictor of college performance. The correlation coefficient measuring the relationship between high school grades and college GPA was 0.36. The SAT by itself came in just behind high school GPA with a correlation coefficient of 0.35. When you combine high school GPA and SAT scores, you end up with a more robust prediction, yielding a correlation coefficient of 0.46.

The College Board researchers also explored the predictive power of individual SAT sections in isolation. If you had to chose only one SAT section to make a prediction of how a student would perform in college, which section would you choose: Math? Critical Reading? Or Writing?

It turns out that Writing takes the cake."