<p>Many US colleges do not accept IELTS but almost every college accept TOEFL.</p>
<p>Yes!! @blacknwhite12 , ACT is alternative to SAT and all colleges accepting SAT will accept ACT as well except for some public universities…</p>
<p>But “Is ACT equivalent to SAT for the Universities or do they prioritize them?” @ameetbh123</p>
<p>There is no such thing as prioritizing SAT before ACT or vice verse. Both are conducted by same college board and both are ‘Standardized tests’. But since ACT is a bit easier than SAT the score range for ACT will be higher a little higher compared to SAT. So at last its the same. About 35 percent of students submit ACT scores. So needn’t worry about it. But if you’re ambivalent about it go for SAT.</p>
<p>@ameetbh123</p>
<p>Some corrections are required to your post.
ACT and SAT are conducted by different organizations. College board only conducts the SAT and ACT is conducted by a different organization. They are graded on different scales, so there’s no “higher” or “lower” in comparison. Some people do better on the ACT, compared to the accepted SAT equivalent and some do worse. It depends upon the test taker. If you’re ambivalent, do your research and see what makes you feel more comfortable. Take practice tests for both, and then decide.</p>
<p>In addition to sixstringsrocker’s reply:</p>
<p>While the SAT Reasoning and ACT can’t be downrightly compared in terms of their test contents, ACT.org (the ACT test maker) occasionally releases a SAT-ACT comparison table as a rough estimate of how a score in one test measures up against a score in the other one.</p>
<p>Regarding the difficulty of the tests:</p>
<p>Based on my personal experience, ACT seems to be more of a time-management test, whereas the SAT is more of a stress-management test with a LOT of information-seeking to be done as well. Thus, some of us might assume ACT to be the easier one among the tests. However, since there is comparatively less time that can be dedicated per question in the ACT, its difficulty basically seems to match that of SAT (otherwise, everyone would be taking the ACT instead of SAT, don’t you think? 
).</p>
<p>Also, the ACT is typically less inclined towards a student’s lexical knowledge (vocabulary), whereas the SAT Reasoning extensively tests student’s knowledge in that regard with mindbogglingly difficult-seeming questions (that can, in most cases, be dealt with successfully by the process of elimination and occasional educated guessing ).</p>
<p>PS # 1.: The above comment is based on my personal experience. Outlook on SAT-ACT difficulty, however, will most probably differ from person to person.</p>
<p>PS # 2.: Since I’ve had the compulsion as well as the opportunity to prepare and appear for both of these tests for the past one year, I seem to have brought together an extensive compilation of preparation materials for SAT Reasoning, SAT II and ACT. I am willing to share the collection, as I believe it will save a significant amount of trouble as well as time for some people. If anyone is interested, PM me. It’d be my pleasure!</p>
<p>A remainder/notice to everyone CSS / Financial Aid PROFILE for Fall 2014 will start from October 1. Get prepared and to all the seniors- “what are the documents that we require?”</p>
<p>You may require Income statement and Bank Statement to send along with ISFAA, but there are no particular documents that are to be sent along with CSS profile, which is electronic.
On the same token, you will need to have knowledge of income, expenses, fix and liquid property, shares, retirement benefit and other financial information of your parents to fill up these form concerned with your finances.</p>
<p>what is bad in applying to a medium type of college for spring intake?</p>
<p>Lack of need-based scholarships. Usually, colleges in US tend to provide a major part of their scholarships and grants during the Fall intake.</p>
<p>Ani … I heard that we need to submit the tax returns … btw what do you mean by 'tax returns" ???</p>
<p>We(I and my friends ) did not send tax return, what we sent instead was Statement from Employer which can act as the substitute of tax return.</p>
<p>To clarify further, Statement from Employer is the document that verifies that your parents work under certain organization, bank,hospital, government offices or some other offices , and that they earn certain amount by working in these places. Employer here are those aforementioned bank,hospital or some other offices.</p>
<p>I am not quite sure about forms you will need to submit if your parents have their own firm or business.</p>
<p>can anyone provide me the list of colleges in which most of the nepalese students are enrolled ?</p>
<p>What is this CSS/Fin Aid profile?</p>
<p>CSS is the financial aid form for which you need to pay $25 for the first college and 16$ per college. It is give by college board. I don’t know exactly, but I read on older posts that the colleges give you CSS wavier code if you can’t afford to pay. You can create that in college board’s website. Its online and most colleges prefer this.
There is another form for international students called ISFAA (International Student Financial Aid Application), which you can print, fill and mail. It is mostly provided for free by colleges website. Just google for the application.
Some colleges accept only css or only ISFAA while others accept both.
Hope this was helpful :)</p>
<p>Caldwell, Colby Sawyer, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Southeastern Louisiana State University, University of New Orleans( 8 this fall, of which 6 received full ride) and Trinity College-(5 this fall) are the colleges where many Nepalese students are enrolled.</p>
<p>thank you 
@ androbot</p>
<p>fyi, most of them are safeties (except Trin Coll)</p>