<p>The only top school that does not accept the ACT is Cal Tech. In fact, the East Coast schools could care less which you take and, on several tours of Ivies, emphasized that students who took the ACT don’t have to take SAT II’s at most (Harvard still required 3 SAT II’s in addition, but this was the exception). Also, far fewer students achieve perfect on the ACT than on the ACT (only 24 students nationally got a 36 vs. >100 1600’s on the SAT).</p>