<p>I am trying to sign up my son for the ACT. But I have run in to extensive questions such as my educational background, my husband's exactly what state he wants to attend school at, if he likes carpentry....multiplied by about 1000. I started skipping over several pages only to reach a warning that I did not fill out enough and I can click OK to save and come back and do these questions later.</p>
<p>Are we really going to have to do these questions in order to take the test? If so, we will stick with the SAT only and not do the ACT.</p>
<p>No, just fill out the required questions that you need to answer to get to the registration. You can also choose to answer that you don’t want to give your information - or something to that extent. I know that it is an option…</p>
<p>Just skip through the questions. That what I did and was able to register my son. I only gave name, address, and birthdate. I may have had to list his classes, which seemed rather odd. That is all.</p>
<p>Toledo…I called and they said that I have to come back to the questions eventually or his test will be cancelled. I told them if this is true, then he just will not take the ACT. They told me this is my choice. I made very sure that the woman knew what the question was.</p>
<p>But I had also emailed the question. And I got an email back, after that call (and my post here) saying that he can skip those questions.</p>
<p>Seriously, they are so disorganized and I am not happy about this. I am having an awful day as it is, and do not need to have to deal with this junk. They need to get their act together.</p>
<p>Why don’t you have your son sign himself up? Just get involved when it comes to the last part…paying. It’s not like the common app and all the supplements are a piece of cake either. Have him get involved now.</p>
<p>That is absolutely not true. I sit with students all of the time when they are registering. I purposely have them only answer the required questions, because there is not enough time for them to sit in my office and go through the whole thing. Never had a student once not receive scores, or unable to sit for the test. They use the information for marketing ( and sell the information to direct junk mail to your house)</p>
<p>There must be a misunderstanding. I was sitting next to my D when she registered for the ACT, in order to give her credit card info to pay, and she got fed up and quit answering the questions. And she had no problem taking the test and getting her scores.</p>
<p>There are perhaps some required questions perhaps which might cause a problem, such as missing name or address or high school, etc.</p>
<p>I know this is not at all related, but my son who was born still should have started kindergarten this year. And everywhere I turn, there are books and such titled things such as “My First Day of Kindergarten” and so on. I tried to express to my playgroup how sad I am. And someone I guess did not realize my son died and started in on me about how exciting kindergarten is and how much her children loved it. I know she did not get it. But, still, it reminds me all the time. So, I figured it was time to get on and sign up for the ACT. And then I run in to this. I just do not have the tolerance for this today. The SAT never gave us troubles like this and we live in the south so might as well stay with the SAT. Except that, of course, he is applying to 1 Iowa college.</p>
<p>The Iowa school will take the SAT too. I still don’t know what questions you are talking about on the ACT. We have had 4 kids take the ACT and I don’t remember having to answer that many questions. Perhaps there are questions on the pages you skipped that are required but most on those pages are not?</p>
<p>There have to be at least 300 questions on the ACT sign-up, so I understand your frustration. I think they do it so they can “sell” your son’s info to schools. My son get no unsolicited mail, so we’re doing something right. I don’t think <em>anyone</em> should be entitled to all that information.</p>
<p>lmkh, I am so sorry that you lost a child. But I still don’t understand why you are doing the sign up for your son…he may as well learn to jump through hoops on his own now. Help him if he needs it, but he should be doing the heavy lifting at this point.</p>
<p>How/Where did your child get the notion that the ACT is necessary to apply to that one institution in Iowa? Every single college and university in the country that requires a standardized exam for admission will accept the SAT and the ACT. Have your kid read the fine print. He will see that this is true for the Iowa college/university that’s on his list.</p>
<p>As much as I hate the ACT sign-up, all three of my kids preferred the test. It is still worth trying, as some kids do better on it versus the SAT. Schools don’t care which scores you send.</p>