<p>Did anyone notice that ACT Inc. is now including in its senior class report all students “whose scores are college reportable.” I’m not sure how that differs from 2012 and before, but the result is an increase of more than a 130,000 students in the class of 2013 taking the ACT. (The increase from 2012 to 2013 was about 40,000.)</p>
<p>This is a bit of revenge against the College Board, who pulled the same trick in 2011 when it started including seniors taking the test after March of their graduation year. But that only increased the number of SAT takers by about a factor of two more than the trending rate. I’m not sure how ACT found so many more test takers.</p>
<p>Edit: Hmmm, it looks like at least some of this is due to including extended time test takers.</p>