take the ACT and skip SAT?

beth_s_mom
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:23:14 +0000

If he did well enough on the ACT to get into the schools he’s interested in, there’s no reason to take the SAT. Just about every college will accept the ACT, even those in traditional SAT areas. If after a couple tries his ACT isn’t where he wants it to be, then he may want to consider the SAT just because he might be one of those students who is better suited to the SAT. One way to gauge this is to look at his PSAT score, if he took that. We’re from the midwest, where the ACT rules, and D’s guidance counselor told us that less than 10% of the kids he’s responsible for who took the SAT did better on the SAT than the ACT. Of course, I don’t think that can possibly be the case across the board or no one would take the SAT.