sillyworld

My ACT's higher than my SAT.
I should've concentrated on doing ACT's than SAT's.

ag54

My son is. He took the December ACT, got a 33 and we cancelled his January SAT and changed it to SAT subject tests. He is happy with his ACT score (may take it again for grins, but no pressure).

All colleges take the ACT now, so there is not a stigma attached to it.

It is true that many do well on one and not the other. My oldest who was a NMF with a 1510 (old score) SAT, only got a 27, my youngest who got the 33 in his first try, got a 198 psat, so we are figuring that it is unlikely that he will do better than the 33 comparatively on the SAT.

They test differently.

jkaufman

In Minnesota at least the ACT is where it's at. Generally people either take only the ACT or both, almost never just the SAT. I definitly prefer the ACT because it measures what you learned in hs and even there is no strategy to whether or not you should answer a question, cause you don't get deducted for a wrong answer. Also, colleges now also have no preferance, and I think the ACT is the better test, but I guess the SAT works for some as well.