Act vs Sat question. Plz respond

drusba
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:27:31 +0000

Score choice simply refers to your ability when ordering SAT or subject test scores sent by College Board to choose not to send one or more tests you have taken before. CB’s default position when you order any scores sent is to send all SAT and subject test scores it has for you unless you exercise score choice and choose not to send particular tests.

When you order a score sent by ACT, it sends only the test ordered; sending another test requires a separate order per college. Thus, ACT does not have score choice simply because there is no choice to make when you order a score sent.

The existence of score choice has nothing to do with the conversion of ACT to SAT scores and vice versa. The conversion table you will find on-line is simply a guide created jointly by CB and ACT based on test scores of those who took both tests from 6 to 7 years ago. It has not been updated and you should not assume that the conversion you see is actually the one followed by any particular college; it might be close but colleges that actually do conversions often create their own tables based on more recent test data than any that is 6 or more years old.

Whether certain ACT score middle 50% ranges or averages may appear to be lower than SAT score ranges or averages for any particular college does not depend on score choice. Regardless of score choice, majority of colleges superscore SAT meaning they use highest subscores from multiple tests and only a minority superscore ACT – instead majority use that ACT test with highest composite. If the college superscores SAT and not ACT, you will often see that the ACT middle 50% range or average seems, based on the exisiting on-line conversion table, to be somewhat lower than the SAT range; that is mainly a result of superscoring SAT scores and not ACT scores.