<p>For those who were accepted at first and second tier schools and who submitted the ACT only (ie. no SAT II subject tests, or SAT I scores), please post your ACT score and the school or schools you were accepted to, and the state that you are from.
I believe that those who are not recruited athletes, development legacies, or under represented minorities and who submit just the ACT, are not as likely to be accepted to top tier and second tier schools unless they come from a state where the ACT is the test of choice, or their ACT score is unbelievably high.
To confirm or dispell this, please post this information.
There is no data from colleges that indicate if the acceptance rate for those who submit just the ACT is the same as those who submit the SAT Reasoning Test with the SAT II subject tests if they are required, or those who submit the SAT and the ACT, or those who submit the ACT with the SAT II subject tests.
The issue is whether top colleges are less likely to accept someone with the ACT alone, especially if the come from the northeast, as they are left to wonder if they took the SAT Reasoning Test and did not perform well.</p>
<p>curmudgeon's D was accepted to Yale/Amherst and a bunch of others with a 35 and no subject tests.</p>
<p>But I am not talking about those who were accepted with a 35. Of course they would have the same chance of someone applying with top SAT scores. My point was to say that I have only seen posters accepted to ivy league and top schools with the ACT alone be accepted if they scored a 34 or above. I have only seen those accepted with lower ACT scores, even if they are in the range the school accepts, if they were from a state where the ACT is not the test of choice.
The point is that if one has a 34, 35, 36, their chances of being accepted with just the ACT even if from the northeast to a northeastern top school is great. However if from the northeast and applying to a top school in the northeast and submitting lets say a 29, 30, 31, 32 I think it is harder even though the scores are in the range. Then I think those who took the SAT are at an advantage</p>
<p>If you look at statistics on collegeboard.com, you'll find that very few of the individuals that ONLY submitted the ACT to Yale got accepted; in fact, only about 15%, I believe. While this does pose a question, it also answers one: simply, you should take both the SAT and the ACT, and do both on well if you wish to be accepted to a high caliber school such as Yale!</p>
<p>Actually, 15% chance of getting accepted is a pretty significant improvement over the 8.3% chance for the overall applicant pool...</p>
<p>Whoa, that's not what I meant. I meant that of ALL the accepted applicants, only about 15% of them ONLY submitted the ACT. The rest of them submitted either only the SAT or both the SAT and the ACT. Hope that clears things up.</p>
<p>Maybe thats because most 85% of the people applying took the SAT and ACT or just SAT and not because they're hating on dudes only taking the ACT?</p>
<p>dunno</p>
<p>DS only took the ACT and got into Colgate with a much less than perfect score. Friends 2 daughters only took the ACT and are in both Yale and Brown. Don't know how they did, but know they didn't have perfect scores. We don't live in an ACT only state. There is a very large movement toward the ACT, and every college in the country, including the CA schools, now accept them. There are some great schools (Tufts comes to mind) that will take the ACT with writing OR the SAT plus two SAT II subject tests, i.e. ONE test sitting vs. TWO. That alone tilted DS toward the ACT 2 years ago, and it turned out to be a great test for him.</p>