SAT Concordance
Using Concordance Tables
Concordance tables support these essential campus uses:
- Comparing scores on the new SAT to the old SAT and the ACT for admission and placement purposes
- Determining a policy score on the new SAT that is comparable to an established policy score
- Converting scores for use in a predictive model or index
- Converting scores for use in internal and external reports
Concordance Tables and Guide
- SAT Concordance Tables for Higher Education (.pdf/656 KB)
- Concordance Tables: New SAT Scores to Old SAT Scores (.xlsx/46.6 KB)
- Concordance Tables: Old SAT Scores to New SAT Scores (.xlsx/46.2 KB)
- Installment 3: Guide to Concordance (Fall 2015) (.pdf/723.63 KB)
Concordance Tips
- Use concordance tables consistently to ensure equity in the admission process.
- You may find that concorded total scores do not equal the sum of concorded section scores; this is common and expected.
- Since most students in the high school class of 2016 submitted old SAT scores, most colleges will convert new SAT scores to old SAT scores for this cohort.
- Since most students in the high school class of 2017 will submit new SAT scores, most colleges will convert old SAT scores to new SAT scores for this cohort.
- Both 2400 total and 1600 total concordance tables are provided since some colleges consider all three sections of the old SAT while others consider only two (Critical Reading and Mathematics).
- Because the new SAT tests both reading and writing in one section, there’s no concordance table from the new SAT’s Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (ERW) section to the old SAT’s Critical Reading section. Instead, compare these sections by concording a combination of the old SAT’s Writing section and Critical Reading section to the new SAT’s ERW section.
Concordance Tables
Higher education professionals need concordance tables at the total, section, and test levels. To ensure the highest degree of accuracy, we’re providing two tables for each concorded score pair, allowing institutions to convert scores in both directions.
Developing Concordance Tables
We’re using the Equipercentile Concordance method, which relates scores on each test that have the same percentile rank. In other words, scores on two different tests are considered concorded when they have the same percentile rank. For example, the score at the 75th percentile on the old SAT score distribution would correspond to the score at the 75th percentile of the new SAT score distribution.