<p>The personal reason why I'm choosing the SAT over the ACT is because most top-tier colleges prefer the SAT. Also the fact that theres a science portion in the ACT doesn't exasperate me enough.</p>
<p>You could only choose one correct? Act or SAT?
Then why would some people take both? Wouldn't that be foolish?
colleges only accept one of the two?</p>
<p>People who haven't taker either don't know which one is better for them.</p>
<p>Let's take me, for example. I took the ACT 3 times and the SAT twice by February. I was doing marginally better on the ACT than on the SAT. Recently when I took the April ACT, I got a 34 -- it killed my 2070 on the SAT (roughly a 30 to a 31 on the ACT). And, after taking a couple practice SATs at home and getting a 2120 max, I figured that I might as well stop taking SATs since they aren't working for me. So when I send in my SAT II scores and my AP exam scores, there'll only be 2 SAT I scores on there, and since my ACT score kicks my SAT scores' butts, the colleges won't even consider the SAT since my ACT is clearly the higher score.</p>
<p>It's kind of a complicated mess, really; there only needs to be one test.</p>
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<p>Again, your are misinformed. Most colleges across the US, including Top-Tier ones, accept both the SAT and the ACT with no preference. So basically, one of your reasons for choosing the SAT has no basis. The other one, however, is true. The science portion sucks...</p>
<p>you actually got a 33 with the writing section factored in, and a 2120 like a 32.</p>
<p>so you really didn't do that much better.</p>
<p>your act score is ace</p>
<p>I think the sat is easier to get a high score on because you can superscore</p>
<p>I think the sat is easier to get a high score on because you can superscore.</p>
<p>the act is actually not that hard but the science section is tough, and the lack of superscoring (mostly) really hurts.</p>
<p>"you actually got a 33 with the writing section factored in, and a 2120 like a 32."</p>
<p>you don't factor in the writing.. there's the 34 composite.. then the 7 writing with a separate combined english writing, which really doesn't have any use</p>
<p>I don't know why you wouldn't want to take both. Then you send in whichever one you do better on. Me, I suck at science, so I prefer the SAT, but I took the ACT anyway just to get a benchmark of how I'd do on it.</p>
<p>If you take either the ACT or SAT, you can actually choose to send in which scores? Uh, aren't the scores automatically recorded on your transcript....</p>
<p>What I was saying is say you take an SAT II subject test, and you get like a 750+ on it. In order to send that test in to your college, everything else you take involving college board is sent in too, even some SAT I tests that you particularly don't care for.. that's one of the reasons why I'm not too fond of college board.</p>
<p>i know this isn't simple question, but I tried searching and I ouldnt find it.</p>
<p>When people say YOU can superscore the SAT, does that mean YOU can or the colleges do it?
or do I even know what superscoring is? I'm confused on this...:/</p>
<p>u could have them both.
or how do u explain some student profiles provided by some schools like this: 90% of the applicants submitted SAT scores, 30% of the applicants submitted ACT scores.
so where does the extra 20% come from?
the reason why more students tend to take the SAT than the ACT is that SAT is more recognizable to the students( not to the schools )</p>
<p>"When people say YOU can superscore the SAT, does that mean YOU can or the colleges do it?
or do I even know what superscoring is? I'm confused on this...:/"</p>
<p>no, the majority of colleges will "superscore" the SAT because on the SAT, they care about the individual sections (esp. M and CR).. so they'll use the highest math and highest reading score, which is, in effect, a superscore</p>
<p>on the ACT, most colleges do NOT superscore because they care about the composite overall a lot more than the individual sections</p>
<p>You can choose both, I don't know how you got that you can only choose one. I did both, there is not much of a difference it seems but maybe some regional differences. If you look at wikipedia, there are more people who take ACT than SAT in the midwest so maybe colleges not in midwest are generally wanting more applicants with SAT.</p>