1530 SAT and/or 35 Composite over two ACTs

Applying to College
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I am a senior trying to figure out which scores to send to colleges. I am mainly looking at very selective engineering schools. MIT etc

I have an SAT score of 1530 with 730 CRW, 800 Math, 7/7/7 Essay.
I also have two ACT scores:
34 Composite, 34 English, 36 Math, 35 Reading, 32 Science, and 8 Essay
34 Composite, 35 English, 33 Math, 36 Reading, 31 Science, no essay

The superscore of these two ACTs is a 35:
35 English, 36 Math, 36 Reading, 32 Science, 8 Essay
Avg = 34.75

My understanding is that a 35 composite ACT is equivalent to around a 1560 SAT. That being said, my question is whether I should send my two ACT scores with the 35 composite despite having a mediocre science score or if I should just send my SAT score. The final option being that I send all three scores.

Thanks in advance for the help!

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First, check if the school superscore ACT. Most don’t.

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Assuming that the schools I’m applying to superscore the ACT.

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If it does, the two ACT combined is better than the single SAT. Are you going to take any subject tests?

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I don’t see the downside of sending all three. Even if a school superscores ACT, I don’t think they are going to look at the 35 superscore and think you’re not quite that good because you also got a mere 1530 SAT. They are going to see two great scores and see you got an 800 and a 36 in math.

If a school doesn’t superscore ACT and also doesn’t ask you to send all scores, you could send just the SAT and the first ACT, as the second ACT would not be helping.

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Would the 31 and 32 in Science be a turn off to any of these schools, or are they mainly going to focus on the other scores and composite?

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The composite matters less than the individual sections. They aren’t going to rerun some average composite. Obviously, for stem, they want/need strong math and sci sections. (And the competition will have them.) So the question isn’t sci versus the rest. If anything, it’s whether your math 36 will carry the lower science score. None of us can answer that.

When you want a college like MIT, you need to be the sort who can dig to understand what they want. They cover superscoring in their web info. You don’t assume.

And you need to learn what else matters to them, beyond stats.