What percentage of high scoring students take both the SAT and ACT?

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<p>There were 18,111 students in 2013 who scored 34 or higher in the ACT.<br>
There were 14,283 students in 2013 who scored 2260 or higher in the ACT.</p>

<p>The concordance table roughly equates a 34 with a 2265, so these are roughly equivalent scores.</p>

<p>If these populations were mutually exclusive, there could be as many as 32,394 students achieving at this level. But we know that many students take both tests. Is there any data out there that would show how many people score this high on both tests?</p>

[An0maly]

<p>I don’t know if there are hard numbers somewhere, but this article (<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/more-students-are-taking-both-the-act-and-sat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/education/edlife/more-students-are-taking-both-the-act-and-sat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;) had two interesting anecdotes:</p>

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Of this year’s 26,000 applicants to Princeton, 13 percent, or 3,477 students, submitted only ACT scores — up from 2 percent (385 of 17,000 applicants) for fall 2006. And almost 8,000 this year submitted scores from both tests.

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At Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of California, Los Angeles, about a quarter of applicants for last year’s freshman class submitted ACT as well as SAT scores. And those are just the students who did well enough on both tests to believe their scores would boost their chances. Far more take both but submit only one.

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<p>So you could extrapolate and say that about a quarter of those people are overlaps.</p>