ACT Composite and Eligibility index calculation

Gumbymom
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 23:12:43 +0000

According to CSU Long Beach’s website, this is how they determine their EI using the ACT:

For applicants that take the ACT assessment, the ACT composite will be converted to an SAT total replacing both the Critical Reading and Math scores for this calculation.

SDSU’s EI calculation: If you took the ACT
(High School GPA × 200) + (10 × ACT Composite Score)
= Eligibility Index

SLO does not use Eligibility index but MCA points see post #52 on the link: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/1694769-confused-about-mca-score-p4.html

CPP has CS but not SE.

SJSU’s CS is very competitive (EI threshold 4725) SE is slightly easier (EI threshold of 4200). Also SJSU does not publish their EI thresholds for ACT, only for SAT so I would calculate the ACT superscore and then convert to SAT score.

SJSU’s EI calculation: If you took the ACT…
CSU capped weighted GPA x 200

average of your highest ACT score results (English, reading, science & math) score x 10 (without the writing score)
= Eligibility Index

Seems like each school has a slightly different way of calculating the EI so I would just superscore her ACT as in the SJSU information and then convert to SAT scores to get the EI.

That is what I did for my younger son when he applied for CS.