<p>ACT’s are accepted at almost all colleges (likewise the SAT). UC’s (and others) value it the same as the SAT’s (in fact, the UC’s almost dumped the SAT in favor of requiring the ACT a few years back – a threatened move that caused the SAT to change its test). The majority of states between those in the East and California have more students submit the ACT than the SAT. There are actually premier colleges that generally require SAT II’s that will take the ACT in lieu of both the SAT and SAT II’s – examples: Yale, Penn, Brown, Hopkins, Duke, Tufts, Pomona, Boston College, Wesleyan, Amherst, Vassar. Traditionally, the number of students in the US who have taken the SAT annually have outnumbered those that take the ACT, but not by much. Based on number of test applications thus far for 2005, it appears that the number of US students taking the ACT in 2005 may actually exceed the number taking the SAT.</p>