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Why are top schools more lenient with ACT scores?

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Why are top schools more lenient with ACT scores?

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I’m not sure the disparity between SAT and ACT scores holds up across regions. At the University of Michigan, for example, the 25th-75th percentile ACT and SAT seem very close to the concordance: University of Michigan 2007 middle 50% ACT 27-31 = (per concordance) 1220-1380 SAT 2007 middle 50% SAT CR + M 1220-1430 = (per concordance) 27-32 ACT Very close. My hypothesis is this: In addition to superscoring of SAT but not of ACT at many top schools, there’s also a regional factor. The largest number of applications to elite East Coast schools come from East Coast applicants. In the East, the SAT rules, and many students take the ACT only if they do poorly on the SAT I. But generally these are somewhat weaker standardized test-takers. Those Easterners who submit the ACT in lieu of the SAT I (or sometimes in lieu of both SAT I and SAT II, depending on the policy at the particular school) generally do so because they did a little better on the ACT than on the SAT, but often not great, becau

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