<p>@fariyfantasy</p>
<p>Unless you are a truly special applicant (elite athlete, kid of the president, etc.), you are not going to be a match at Stanford and Yale. The best applicants have maybe a 50-50 shot to get into these schools, and you could be there, but match means "highly likely, but not certain).</p>
<p>As for your initial question, there is NO reason to take the ACT at this point. Anything above a 750 (or some will even say a 730) will do almost as much good as an 800. I got a 2310 on my SAT (superscored out of 2 sittings), and took that score, without looking back. Would a 2400 have been cool? Sure, but it would have done me no good. Actually, out of all the practice and real tests I took, I only twice got an 800 on math- once on the PSAT and once on the SAT. The ACT curve seems a little easier (because it has fewer stopping-off points), so I do wonder if I could have gotten a 36 (I never even took a practice test), but who cares.</p>