<p>Apparently the gap is small if any now. Other trends also examined.</p>
<p>I predict that in 50 years the ACT will be far-and-away the dominant test, if the SAT isn’t obsolete altogether. The bad media the SAT gets for supposedly being favorable to high-income groups and to the majority race, and the sensitivity around it for historically being an aptitude test (whether it can be truly considered one today is irrelevant; the ACT never had that stigma); it’s all going to eventually catch up in our nauseatingly politically correct society.</p>
<p>As long as the NMSQT is attached to the SAT, the ACT will never total eclipse it.</p>
<p>The new national academic standards are taken almost directly from the ACT’s college readiness standards. Most states will be adopting these standards and using products from the ACT to measure progress towards the standards. Because of this, I think that ACT will become the preeminent test in 10 to 15 years.</p>