<p>collegebound--where does it say on the Penn site that it prefers the SAT? I can't find it anywhere. Can you post a link (because to be honest, I suspect you are wrong).</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I don't believe I recalled seeing Penn preferring the SAT to ACT anywhere when I was applying this year. I believe the poster is mistaken. Anyway, all schools pretty much say that they do not promote one test or the other. There's one good reason for doing so. The vast majority of students do comparably on both tests (meaning scores that are more or less equivalent). There are a handful of students that perform better on the ACT than the SAT, but there are also a handful that score better on the SAT than the ACT. The idea that the ACT is easier than the SAT is not true at all. It's a matter of preference, with some preferring one test to the other and most not caring. </p>
<p>BTW, it's definitely possible to get in with just your ACT if the school allows it.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Brown. I only sent my ACT score to them.</p>
<p>For most of the other universities, I sent my ACT scores and SAT subject tests scores (which listed my SAT reasoning scores, too).</p>
<p>However, I think the colleges looked at my higher ACT score instead of my SAT score.</p>
<p>ACT: 27 (1830)
SAT: 1640</p>
<p>I had a really bad score on SAT writing, which could mean that I might not do well on the AWPE this weekend.</p>
<p>I serioiusly doubt that admins at any school Ivy or otherwise are going to look at a highly competitive ACT score and "wonder" if that student is academically less qualified because they didn't take the SATs or didn't report SAT scores. These tests are just one of many indicators if the student is capable of doing the caliber of work at that particular college or that the student has achieved a particular level of learning. I seriously doubt that Eastern schools would want to exclude kids in the vast middle of America and most of the western states over a test if there were inherent predictable differences in the caliber of the students.</p>
<p>i was accepted at ucla, rejected at berkeley with a 33 on the act. i got a 2050 on the sat, but didnt report it</p>
<p>i had a 33 ACT and was accepted at BC, U of Rochester, Tulane w/ full scholarship, and waitlisted at Emory, UPenn, Brown, and WashU</p>
<p>i reported my much-lower SAT score only to BC, and it was from sophomore year</p>
<p>A kid at my school sent only ACT and got in Harvard and Yale. So it shouldn't be a matter.</p>
<p>I mentioned my ACT score, 27, but I forgot to mention the schools that accepted me.</p>
<p>Accepted:
UC Berkeley (attending in the fall, for now)
UCLA
NYU (Steinhardt scholarship)
University of Southern California
UCSD
UC Davis
UCI
CSULB (full persidential scholarship)
CSU Sacramento</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Brown
Stanford (received rejection e-mail today, 5/7)</p>
<p>Accepted to Cornell's College of Engineering.
Sent 33 ACT as well as the required SAT II's.</p>
<p>Accepted into all nine schools that I applied to with merit scholarship from eight, except from Middlebury (only financial aid) with only submitting my ACT scores plus writing.</p>
<p>COMP: 29
English: 32
Math: 34
English: 25
Science: 25
Writing: 11
(yeah, I gave up on the test after the math...)</p>
<p>Notable is that I am a prospective student in hopes of an IB diploma with extracurriculars that are unending. Schools look at you holistically.</p>
<p>I only submitted the ACT to all my schools except Georgetown to which I also submitted my sub par SATs and horrendous subject test scores (not surprisingly, I got rejected from them :D). </p>
<p>For ACT, I got a composite of 33.
I got accepted to George Washington, Northeastern, U wisconsin-madison, Michigan state, and U Arizona.</p>
<p>I got wait-listed (pending) to Pomona and Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>I got a hefty scholarship from MSU because of my act score (if I had submitted just my SAT score, i wouldn't have received it). But then again, midwestern schools do seem to "appreciate" the ACT more as its more widely taken there.</p>
<p>My son only submitted the ACT with a composite score of 29. He was accepted at: U Conn, U Delaware, U Maryland, Lafayette, SUNY Binghamton, Syracuse, Indiana. Waitlisted at Union and rejected at U Florida.</p>
<p>I got a 30 composite (27 math, 27 science, 30 writing, 34 english) and was accepted at Clark with a huge scholarship, Wheaton with a huge scholarship, but was waitlisted at Bates, Conn College, Trinity, and Colby.</p>
<p>ACT only.</p>
<p>33 Comp (35 math, 36 science, 33 reading, 29 writing).</p>
<p>Accepted: 10/10 schools I applied, including WashU, Duke, Johns Hopkins, and UNC (as an oos'er).</p>
<p>The way you're asking this is almost like a witch hunt... When colleges say they don't care, they really don't. </p>
<p>Besides, some schools even outright note that the admins don't know which you took because they'll just convert it to one form (using their own conversion chart).</p>
<p>I got into Dartmouth and Berkeley with the ACT with writing......</p>
<p>Composite 33, E34, M34, R32, S31, W9</p>
<p>I'm apparently from an SAT state (Arizona), but in my area, it's pretty mixed. Neither the SAT nor the ACT is really preferred.</p>
<p>i sent ACT only to schools that did not require SATII subject tests and I got into Stanford (attending), Brown, Middlebury, Vassar, Wesleyan, Barnard, Scripps, Kenyon, Whitman, Oberlin, Wellesley, and a few others. And I was wait listed at Harvard and Columbia (both of which i sent my SAT scores to. I was rejected from Northwestern, who i also sent my SAT scores to...so I basically didn't get into the schools i sent SAT to). Seriously i really doubt that sending only ACT scores hurts people. def hurt my app for schools where i DID send SAT.</p>
<p>i hope my example is enough to convince everyone on this Message Board that they truly do not prefer one over the other.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the ACT-sending applicants posting here. Those are some impressive admission results.</p>
<p>Trying to breathe deeply here over the whole college thing, but here's a question: my D goes to a rigorous NE boarding school, B+ average, 33 ACT. Is that enough to get into a top tier school ... or would good SAT scores be necessary?</p>
<p>Deepsigh, I don't think SAT I scores are necessary on top of that ACT. Some top schools are going to want SAT II's though. You are probably best off running your question past the college counselors at the boarding school.</p>
<p>Do you think my daughter's ACT composite of 34 (E-35, M -34, R -34, S -33, Essay -10); in the National Merit Competition based upon 97th percentile PSAT's (but will drop out and wind up as commended student because of high cut off in NY) is good enough to get into Boston College without SAT's and/or SAT II's?</p>