<p>“I would have thought quite the opposite. If you scored 2000 on the SAT, you would take the ACT to see if that’s more your style. If you scored 2400 on the SAT, I think you’d be displaying perfectionism or another negative trait to then take the ACT. I think elite students do “one and done,” typically, since they have other fish to fry.”</p>
<p>And if you’re in a state where you’re required to take the ACT anyway as part of high school, why would you bother with the SAT? This isn’t the 1980’s, when the SAT was the “real” test for elite schools and the ACT was for midwestern state flagships amongst the cornfields. </p>