Send SAT vs. ACT to UC system

stnfrdstd
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:40:42 +0000

What will help your daughter is her UC GPA of 4.08. Her test scores are not high, but it will not hurt for her to send all her test results. The UCs use the table “bluebayou” has referenced above. To determine her which of her ACT results work best, you will need to know the combined English/Writing score (you don’t mention this). UC gives this score 1/3 weight + 2/3 (Math, Reading/Science). So, for the UCs, the ACT composite is not the important number.

More importantly, if your daughter wants to attend a UC in a business major, there aare 3 UCs with full-fledged undergraduate business schools: Berkeley, Irvine and Riverside. She should definitely apply to Irvine and Riverside. Merced also has an attractive major in Management in its School of Social Sciences. The others offer something called Business Economics which is really Economics with Accounting courses.