Colleges that value ACT's more - need help

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<p>When you say this, are you referring to self-reporting AP scores on the college application form (the Common Application has space to self-report lots of AP scores), or are you referring to sending an official AP score test report to each college? Every year when my son takes AP tests, he sends his free included score report to our state flagship university, but he only self-reports on the application form to any other college. The AP test scores are also exhaustively listed on a homeschool family transcript that we attach to each of his applications. That should be enough, right?</p>

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<p>Last year (Class of 2009) I submitted just my ACT scores to every college I applied to.</p>

<p>How it worked out for me:</p>

<p>Accepted:
Indiana University-Bloomington
University of Alabama
University of South Carolina (scholarship giving me in-state tuition and then some)
Texas Christian University (scholarship giving me half-tuition)
Southern Methodist University (scholarship giving me $10K+/year)</p>

<p>Rejected:
Boston College (only applied because I was a legacy, huge reach)
University of Southern California (reach)</p>

<p>Deferred/No Decision:
University of Georgia (in-state flagship, deferred EA, didn’t finish application for RD)</p>

<p>Take that for what you will, but I don’t feel I was hurt by not submitting my SATs (they were 250 points lower than my ACT).</p>

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<p>Sounds like he got high 30s. That can go a long way towards making up for a lower GPA at a mid tier UC.</p>

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<p>pixeljig:</p>

<p>Your S still needs to take and submit the SAT II subject tests to the UCs regardless of whether he submits the SAT reasoning test or ACT. If he hasn’t taken them yet, make sure he gets it done very soon if he’s currently a HS senior. The following is from the UC Pathways website - </p>

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<p>Thank you all for such good feedback.</p>

<p>Son took SAT 2 Math 2 and Physics right at the end of junior year in May and SAT 1 in June. He got perfect in Math both places and was happy. To save last minute rush (also for the EA), we ended up sending the scores to his entire list of colleges.</p>

<p>I did not think it was worth re-taking the CR if he was not going to do any practice tests, so I suggested ACT’s instead and he almost did not go for the test! </p>

<p>Needless to say I am glad he did.</p>