Why didn't Indiana choose to implement the ACT?

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<p>I mean, it’s friggin’ surrounded by states whose preference is the ACT over the SAT. </p>

<p>Furthermore, the state is mostly Republican, an indicator of being an ACT state - save the southeastern coast of the US. Was Indiana red a century ago, when the Republicans were the liberals? That might explain something, but I wouldn’t know.</p>

<p>I w o u l d like to hear from the Hoosiers on this site, and why their state hasn’t either replaced the SATs or begun to vote more Democrat than Republican.</p>

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<p>rrrriiiggghhhhttt…</p>

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<p>that is weird. I mean here in ohio, where I go to school, we have to take both the sat and the act once. I mean here, there is no more emphasis on the sat than the act</p>

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<p>Hmm…good question. I’m not really sure myself. I’ve taken both, but the emphasis here definitely is on the SAT. Also, most of us are still quite conservative. I guess it’s just out of habit. We’ve all grown up hearing SAT, SAT, SAT, so we are just more prone to take that test. I personally liked the ACT better, except for the science part.</p>

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<p>i believe the general trend goes something like this:
act for central states
sat for the others</p>

<p>i’m too lazy to look for facts - so i could be extremely wrong too…</p>

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<p>Well, the weird thing is that all of the states surrounding us tend to prefer the ACT and we don’t. Just a quirk I guess.</p>

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<p>For the same reason they haven’t implemented DST.</p>

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<p>Indiana is weird in that way. (what is dst?)</p>

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<p>DST = daylight saving time</p>

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<p>Yeah, but they’re talking about starting DST now, although I don’t think it’s gotten very far.</p>