<p>Ziggi, this move toward making the ACT mendatory in Michigan is recent. Ever since I can remember, the Midwest has not taken the concept of SAT prep courses very seriously. Midwestern students simply don’t bother with the SAT as much. They don’t take prep courses, they don’t prepare as hard for it, they don’t take it as many times as their Western or Eastern counterparts and the majority of state universities around them don’t really care for the results of the SAT. The same applies for the ACT. Standardized tests just don’t get the same respect among Midwesterners as it does among Easterners or Westerners.</p>