<p>Do the Ivy League schools look at ACT scores, or do they really prefer SAT’s? What if you do much better on one than the other? Do you need to send both perhaps?</p>
<p>Certainly don't need them both. They all accept SATs and I'm pretty sure (although not positive) they all accept the ACT as a substitute. If you have taken one and think you will do significantly better on the other, I'd suggest taking it. If you think you'll do only a bit better, or your scores are decently high already, I wouldn't. 50 points on your SAT isn't the difference between an accept and a deny.</p>
<p>Princeton requires both... most other Ivys will just accept ACT scores..
I did a lot better on my ACT than ACT, so I sent that to most of my schools... some schools will also let you send your ACT score instead of SAT II's... pretty sweet!</p>
<p>My daughter is in Brown with an ACT score. The only Ivy I'm unsure of is Princeton. At different places on their web site they say different things.</p>
<p>i only sent in my ACT, as they were significantly higher than my SAT's...</p>
<p>GOHEELS is wrong. Princeton takes ACT and three SAT 2s. If your ACT is higher, SAT 1 is lower, but you have good SAT 2s, might as well send everything even if the college takes only the ACT.</p>
<p>Does Princeton accept ACT (American College Testing) scores?</p>
<p>Yes. We will accept ACT results in place of SAT I scores only. All applicants must submit SAT II scores.</p>
<p>Hello princeton. How are you doing? I never thought I would ever get to talk to THE princeton. I mean I've met harvard a few times, but he's pretty boring. You better watch it princeton, there's been an epidemic of ivy league college eating going around and I hear you might be next.</p>
<p>All schools accept the ACT in place of the SAT I, however, some still require SAT II's. The ACT is actually a bigger test with more students nationwide taking it.</p>
<p>I thought I saw a figure recently that showed that more took the SAT, although it wasn't by much.</p>
<p>I think Wake Forest only takes the SAT I and Randolph Macon expresses a preference for it. But those are the only two that people have identified when we have these perennial conversations about SAT versus ACT.</p>
<p>If you go outside the US, though, schools want the SAT from US candidates. At least this was true of those my daughter investigated. But she ended up deciding against applying to any of them.</p>
<p>DianeR, what schools require SAT? I remember I was considering applying to Oxford, and they accept ACT. They require that you have 32+ composite.</p>
<p>Double-checking the colleges she was looking at, it looks like three of them have added the ACT (with SAT IIs). Our research was three years ago. Either that or I'm senile and remembering the SAT II requirement incorrectly. It's a good thing you asked!</p>
<p>The school she was most interested in was University College London. Their requirement, at least now, is 4 full year AP courses with grades of 4 or 5 OR the SAT I with a particular minimum and a year at a US college.</p>
<p>There was another English college she was looking at but I don't remember what it was (not Oxford). Basically, we tried to find every Egyptology program in the world where English was spoken. There was a place in Australia and even one in Sweden (English spoken "as needed"?) but I don't remember their names either.</p>
<p>So this shows the importance of checking things out. I remember someone telling me a few years ago that MIT and Cal Tech didn't take the ACT. But she had researched it a year or two previously and their requirements had changed in the interim.</p>
<p>sorry to sidetrack, but does Brown take composites of SAT scores?</p>
<p>Relying just on what I've heard on CC, most places apparently do composites of the SAT, but only a few do it for the ACT. I don't know the policy of Brown about either. You could just email or call admissions.</p>