<p>I'm a sophomore girl who already got a good score on the SAT; but one option for college that I'm considering is getting into a BA/MD program and somebody told me that some of the programs require an ACT score instead of an SAT score. Is this true?</p>
<p>Generally, if you take the SAT, you’re good to go wherever.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t hurt to take it.</p>
<p>Depends what your “good score” is. Good for some is a 1900, good for others is a 2300. If you got a 2300 (for instance) your score is fine for wherever you go. If you got a 1900 (for instance) you could try to take the ACT and see if your equivalent SAT score is any better. That said, SATs are accepted just about everywhere.</p>
<p>Very few programs (none that I know of) require the ACT as opposed to the SAT, and I know of no colleges that don’t accept the SAT in place of the ACT. </p>
<p>Are you sure that whoever told you this didn’t say/mean to say that the either the SAT OR the ACT was needed? I dunno about you, but here in Kentucky, the ACT is immensely more popular than the SAT and people talk about it all the time (heck, I don’t think half my school even know what an SAT is, lol) and as a result most people just default to ACT when they really mean either the ACT or the SAT.</p>
<p>The only reason to take the ACT if you’ve already done well on the SAT is if you think you’d do better on the ACT. In a nutshell, the ACT is you have less time to answer less complicated problems, while the SAT gives you more complicated and thoughtful problems but with more time to do the problem. The ACT asks more direct questions, while the SAT is more abstract and more critical thinking. If you think you can score better on the ACT, go for it.</p>