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gibby
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:18:05 +0000

“Frankly, I don’t understand why someone who takes one of the tests and gets a really high score would bother taking the other, since they are complete substitutes.”

Sometimes a high school will pressure students to take the SAT because only the SAT will qualify a student for the National Merit Scholarship Award. And it doesn’t matter that the ivies do not give NMS money. Many high school’s compete for bragging rights of having the most National Merit Scholarships. Without naming names, this happened to my son. He took the ACT at the end of his sophomore year and scored a 36. His high school, however, pressured him (and other students) to take the SAT in his junior year – and even paid for him to do so – so that the high school could claim that they had more National Merit Scholars than any other high school in the nation.