<p>I have heard that New England schools kind of frown upon the ACT's....anybody know of any truth to this?</p>
<p>abank, fifteen different people have told you it makes no difference ACT/SAT. You don't like what you're hearing, or you are very distrusting of 15 people who probably have VAST more experiences than you. Make phone calls to the New England schools that you are just sure frown upon the ACT test.</p>
<p>If NE schools frown on the ACT, then why do they accept kids who only supply ACT scores, that is ridiculous. Honestly, every one of my friends, have opted to do the ACT, versus SAT, are even dumping decent SAT subject II scores to only submit ACT to the schools they are applying to, and that includes IVY s as well. One guy I am friends with, his brother sent his ACTs to Wharton and got in, he would have never been accepted based on SATs.</p>
<p>fpfan, I obviously understand that everybody here has more expierence, or else I would not have asked the question, the reason I am keep "doubting" is for two reasons. 1) My college counselor is adament in saying that ACT's are looked down upon (which I now know is not true) and 2) I wanted the thread to keep moving up so I could get as many point of views as possible</p>
<p>I phoned Harvard to see for sure, and the ACT's and SAT's are equally valuable for admission.</p>
<p>lol My AP English teacher advised us to take the SAT.</p>
<p>According to my friend, he (the teacher) said that taking the SAT makes you look more organized, as compared to the ACT.</p>
<p>I think that's total BS, and a test is a test. Colleges primarily just want one as an indicator of how well you do on them. If you see that you score better on one compared to the other, take it.</p>
<p>what about if your ACT score is much much greater than your SAT score? as in 35 compositve vs. 2130? but you have really good SAT II's. Should you submit?</p>
<p>submit both. colleges "say" that they look at the highest score, so they should consider your ACT over your SAT, but give weight to your good SAT 2 score</p>