<p>we are east coast staters…and my son took the SAT and did well twice…especially high Writing score. He then took the ACT another month…and got a really high math score. Here is the rub…he didn’t take ACT writing. Although we are not losing sleep over this, we now realize that he should have taken the writing on the ACT and the SAT…because some schools would have only seen his ACT if he had done this and it is much higher overall than the SAT…and no school overtly agrees to use the ACT…with the SAT writing…a la superscoring across Tests themselves.</p>
<p>In our situation, he is done with using up precious Saturdays this way, but perhaps I could encourage other students…spread out your tests and don’t avoid the writing ACT section. You might lose an opportunity to only show your “top scores” that way if the ACT is where you shine. We generally think his colleges will look at all his test scores anyhow, but each college committee is probably quirky enough to perhaps write down only his SAT with writing and his SATIIs on his folder for final review in some instances…who knows.<br>
OK< that is my advice. If you are too weary and SAT’ed to take the ACT WITH writing, don’t take it at all until you gather up the energy to do the whole thing…it could be a plus for you later.</p>