****! They're changing the SAT AGAIN!?!?!?!?!?!?!

greenwitch
Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:08:16 +0000

The last time the SAT changed was after the UCs dropped the test requirement entirely. Suddenly, the SAT was reborn - and in triplicate, it seemed.

My older Ds took both tests but when it was time to send the scores around we usually chose the ACT. Why? Most of their schools required either the SAT + 1 or 2 SAT IIs or the ACT with writing. It was already a bit cheaper to send the ACT scores, and when you only had to send one score instead of two or three different SAT scores, times two kids, times all the colleges they applied to, the financial difference was pretty big.

Way back in my day the letters SAT stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test. Because they could never prove it was truly measuring aptitude, and because of several lawsuits, they had to change the name to the Scholastic Achievement Test.