<p>The Admissions website says that it doesn't matter which test you take. What I'm wondering is will it help if I take both and submit a good score in both? My reasoning is if I do well in both then it will be apparent that it wasn't just a fluke and that I really do deserve the score I got. Although those tests are engineered specifically so weed out flukes like that, I always figured universities would look more favorably if you turned in both.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter. The will only look at your best score, and just to see if you’re competitive. They won’t between 2 applicants based on tests scores.</p>
<p>Some schools prefer one, some perfer the other. Best to take them both. And, if they are close, submit both. It may not matter to MIT which one you take, but it may matter to another school.</p>
<p>It won’t matter. You should take timed practice tests of both only to determine which test you do better with, then focus your full attention on that test. </p>
<p>The strategies for each test are different. IMHO, you will be more likely to get a truly great score if you focus on just one strategy / one test.</p>
<p>It really <em>shouldn’t</em> matter, but as an MIT student that thought standardized tests were one of the more entertaining things in high school, I recommend taking both just for fun.</p>
<p>The advice from the GC at my HS was for students to take both to see which one they were better at, then retake that one after study. You can do that, or just do the practice tests so you give less money to the testing companies.</p>