SAT to ACT Score Conversion—Insights?

Hi folks, so I just got my SAT score and some of my friends have been talking about converting it to an ACT score for comparison. Is there an 'SAT to ACT score converter' or a process for translating SAT scores into ACT scores? How reliable are these conversions? Any information would be greatly helpful.

While there isn't an official SAT to ACT score "converter" put out by the College Board or ACT, those two companies have jointly put out concordance tables, which are meant to show rough equivalencies between scores on the two test. These charts aim to give you a comparison of your SAT score in ACT terms (and vice versa).

As for how reliable these conversions are, it's important to remember that they're just estimations. Both the SAT and ACT have different testing formats, categories, and ways of evaluating student knowledge. An ACT score is not a perfect equivalent of an SAT score, and vice versa.

You can use these charts as a rough guideline or ballpark figure rather than a definitive statement of your performance on one test versus the other. If you're trying to figure out which test you might perform better on, it might be more useful to take a practice test of each type, under timed conditions, and see which one feels more comfortable or aligns more closely with your strengths.

Finally, keep in mind that most colleges accept either SAT or ACT scores and do not prefer one over the other. They usually convert all scores to a common scale to compare them anyway, so it might not matter as much as you think. However, it's always important to review the specific testing requirements or preferences of the colleges you're interested in.