College admission

Applying to College
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<p>I am an Indian student …</p>

<p>Will it help in any way in getting into a top notch Liberal Arts college if along with the SAT and 3 SAT Subject tests, I also take the ACT. And score very High marks in each of the 3 tests.</p>

<p>I want to study Maths or Economics …</p>

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<p>Or there is no need to take the ACT … Please help me …</p>

<p>It is more important to me because I don’t have very high grades in School except in Maths … because I was really not interested in studies and I lacked motivation.</p>

<p>How to prove these to the colleges I want to apply that I am not a fool even though my High school grades are not Outstanding …</p>

<p>I guess there is some ways … because I can only work in the present and I can’t change my past …</p>

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<p>I don’t think taking the ACT will be advantageous to you. Focus on the SAT, which is still, in my mind, the more respected test.</p>

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<p>But I will surely get very good recommendations … because all my teacher’s knew that I was intelligent but naughty …My Scores are</p>

<p>Class X - English 85, Maths 95, Social Science 88, Science 82, French 71
Class XII - English 95, Maths 91, Physics 71, Economics 68, Chemistry 58</p>

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<p>Another reason for my bad scores are that in India most of things we need to mug up … and I don’t like to outrightly paste the book into my answer sheets … I like to use my brains … and teachers here in India don’t like that !!!</p>

<p>Can I tell the college about this somehow …</p>

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I don’t think taking the ACT will be advantageous to you. Focus on the SAT, which is still, in my mind, the more respected test.

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<p>But in admissions, it doesn’t make a difference. It’s not your mind that matters. It’s the minds and policies of the admissions committees. Even if a school prefers one test over the other, they can convert the scores.</p>

<p>I’d recommend taking both the SAT (and subject tests) and ACT. If you do considerably better on the ACT, you can send just that. If you do considerably better on the SAT and SAT subject tests, you can send just those. If you do well on both, you can send both.</p>

<p>Sending both isn’t necessary, but it could give you a boost if they’re both good :)</p>