<p>I’d consider it a safety if you were coming from our school. No one with an SAT over 2050 was rejected. The average weighted GPA from our school was 96 out of 100.</p>
<p>since you all are parents, i thought i’d ask for advice
my GC isn’t super familiar with the ACT and told me i should take the SAT
i got a 34. Is the SAT necesary. I don’t think it is.</p>
<p>No, the SAT is not strictly necessary for someone who has a 34 on the ACT unless the person wants to advance from National Merit semifinalist (defined by PSAT score) to National Merit finalist (multiple criteria, including SAT score). A score of 34 on the ACT is in the highest percentile of ACT scoring, and at or above the 75th percentile line for the enrolled class of all but just a few colleges.</p>
<p>thanks Token Adult
I won’t be a Semi Finalist, only commended.<br>
So i guess i’m in the clear!!!</p>
<p>A 34 is equal to a 1510 according to the college board</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>Go celebrate!!!</p>
<p>^^^wow…i didn’t know it was that good
everyone always says the ACT is so much easier than the SAT, so i didn’t think it would be considered that good</p>
<p>Congrats on the great score rocket6louise.</p>
<p>i totally forgot to ask my second question.
Are SAT II’s necessary. I’m not planning on applying anywhere great, so is it worth the money and time?
If you think so, which ones are recommended</p>
<p>rocket, you’ll have to look at the school’s requirements. If you took ACT with writing many schools don’t require SAT II’s, but some do. My kids both took US History, Math 2 and a science.</p>
<p>rocket6louise, I concur with the others who said the SAT is not needed. Also think you may wish to verify other info from your GC which you think may not be correct.</p>
<p>Here is a link which gives details on test requirements for a bunch of schools, I would also follow up directly to the school’s website for any you want a definitive answer</p>
<p>[Compass:</a> Admissions Requirements](<a href=“SAT Subject Test Requirements and Recommendations - Compass Education Group”>SAT Subject Test Requirements and Recommendations - Compass Education Group)</p>
<p>…sitting here twiddling my thumbs…</p>
<p>Jackief:</p>
<p>You said, “however, because of the reporting structure from ACT, he could always take it without any repercussions, except the $46 lighter wallet.”</p>
<p>By this, do you mean if he scores lower on the ACT exam than he SAT (per the concordance table comparisons) no one would ever have to know he even took the test since, unlike the College Board/SAT that is tied in to such things as APs, the ACT is not?</p>
<p>It’s nice to know the College Board can accommodate for one’s religious beliefs and I should have figured that out. Good thing I wasn’t taking the SAT. Hopefully they do for AP exams as well. I know some of the swimmers can sometimes miss a regular testing since the CIF (CA Interscholastic Federation) has their finals or semi-finals smack over AP testing time but usually, I thought, kids pay an extra fee to take a Saturday test.</p>
<p>FAP- for SAT/SATII test group (not talkin APs here) they used to send the whole shebang and now with score choice you can do some picking and choosing but there are still some schools which are requiring the whole set, still not sure of all the details here on if they would know you are not sending the complete set or not, I guess until some of the '10ers start sending their scores under the score choice will be actually get more details. Tokenadult has posted some slides which talk about this from the CB.</p>
<p>HOWEVER for the ACT, you send by test date. So if you took it twice in Dec and Apr and you like your Apr score better, you tell ACT to send that date and you pay their fee. If you like both dates for some reason, even though most schools do not superscore, you tell them you want to send both and you pay the fee x 2. There have been rumblings on here that some schools want all your ACTs also, but with the current reporting structure, I don’t see that being pragmatic, and I’d really be interested in any case where a person did not send all ACTs to one of these schools and it had any meaning (if the school has any ability to know this). And of course, if SAT is better, no reason to send any ACT test at all.</p>
<p>Sorry for the rambling answer, not enough morning coffee yet.</p>
<p>I cannot see how colleges could require students to send official scores from multiple seatings of the ACT. Some students have taken it 4+ times. That would be very expensive if one were applying to more than a couple of schools. Perhaps that is why the ACT has not been superscored by most colleges. I wonder if that will change now that one may have score choice for the SAT as well.</p>
<p>right northeastmom, I don’t remember the specific threads but some colleges which are rejecting CB score choice are saying they want ALL scores from ALL tests (which could be interpreted to mean all ACTs also) I am not worrying about it and don’t see how it can really be expected or known that you are not sending all your tests.</p>
<p>hey, I see we are over the 4000 threshold, yay us as we continue drafting the 09ers.</p>
<p>@mathmom: Wow, that’s a surprisingly low SAT threshold. Thanks for the reference point. I so wish we had Naviance.</p>
<p>Keix, Naviance at S2’s school has similar stats for UR.</p>
<p>we only have one acceptance data point on the 2400 SAT graph for UR, that person had a 2210 and a 3.5 avg. On the 1600 graph, more datapoints- 1430 and about a 3.75 avg (I’m converting our weird scale to the 4.0 scale in my head on the fly)</p>
<p>Definitely makes me feel better about my chances (I’m assuming the interview is enough demonstrated interest). Thanks!</p>