<p>bclintonk-- I like your theory. I’d still bet a paycheck that there’s some funky accounting going on with an east coast school or two that selectively partition some lower scores to the ACT bucket, which don’t ‘count’ as much in rankings or public notice.</p>
<p>bluebayou-- thanks for the link. I recall better now regarding assessing my D’s test scores of all types using the UC scoring methodology. My D happened to do much better on her ACT English/writing subscore than her composite, so with the weighting placed by UC on that section to make it equivalent in weight to the SAT W, her UC score for her ACT looked much better than a simple ACT composite concordance translation.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the UC ACT to SAT (M+CR) conversions do look a bit elevated relative to the Concordance tables (conc) …albeit very slightly. [Do you know why?] For an ACT submitter, looks like UC has a 20 point more favorable view of the SAT conversions (M+CR) than the Concordance tables for ACT ranges from 27 to 33. Here’s what I calculate…</p>
<p>ACT - SAT Conc - SAT UC - DIFF
36 ---- 1600 ----- 1600 ----- 0
35 ---- 1560 ----- 1560 ----- 0
34 ---- 1510 ----- 1520 ----- 10
33 ---- 1460 ----- 1480 ----- 20
32 ---- 1420 ----- 1440 ----- 20
31 ---- 1380 ----- 1400 ----- 20
30 ---- 1340 ----- 1360 ----- 20
29 ---- 1300 ----- 1320 ----- 20
28 ---- 1260 ----- 1280 ----- 20
27 ---- 1220 ----- 1240 ----- 20
26 ---- 1190 ----- 1200 ----- 10
25 ---- 1150 ----- 1160 ----- 10
24 ---- 1110 ----- 1120 ----- 10</p>
<p>Concordance table: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;