<p>^^ Charliesmom,
I wouldn’t draw that conclusion at all. East Coast colleges probably will assume that East Coast applicants who submit only ACT scores are doing so only because their ACT scores are stronger than their SAT scores. But I don’t think they give a hoot about that. ACT scores are just as good a predictor of college success as SAT scores, and if the candidate has a strong GPA, class rank, ECs, essays, recommendations, etc—and especially if she has the right kind of “hook”–then relatively strong ACT scores only confirm that this is a candidate worth considering for admission. And some fraction of those students will be admitted. I suspect, however, that if there’s a big disparity between the reported ACT medians and the reported SAT medians at given school, the SAT medians (and their ACT equivalents) are probably a better predictor of the candidate’s chances of admission in the regions where the SAT is dominant (primarily the East and West Coasts).</p>