<p>If a student takes the ACT instead of the SAT, will colleges get suspicious of the student especially if the student lives in a city where many students take the SAT?</p>
<p>I'm not sure=(
I've emailed office of admissions at schools like georgetown, and they said they do not favor either one.</p>
<p>I just wonder if the colleges might be lying. Also, what should a student say if an interviewer asks why he took the ACT instead of the SAT in an SAT residential city?</p>
<p>Just say the act was a better fit for you. Maybe you wanted to try something different. It is not like one is easier than the other. If you get a 30 on the ACT, you probably would've gotten around a 2000 on the SAT. Just say it was a better fit. Why? Because you liked that they had a science section. Because the SAT was too long. Or for no reason at all. You just wanted to try something different.</p>
<p>The number of students taking the ACT has been rising over the past few years. I think it is up like 18% from last year according to Kaplan US News Source.</p>
<p>Nope. There is a guy on here from some college in NY (Not Columbia) and I asked him the same exact question. He said that colleges (his included) assume that you are putting your best foot forward, so if you only submit ACT, they are assuming that you did better on it than on the SAT. If you only took the ACT, they still assume that you took both and did better on the ACT.</p>
<p>calmy8899,</p>
<p>If anyone asks and you are uncomfortable about answering, say your college counselor, tutor, teacher, etc. told you to do so. Then ask the interviewer if he/she thinks you made a mistake by not taking the SAT.</p>
<p>It is also my understanding that colleges don't really care much about which college entrance exam you take, so if they are lying then they have fooled the world. If colleges considered one test over another, it would be out there somewhere (trust me, those of us who benefit directly from students preparing for the SAT would know it and would help our kids, and then it would get out to their friends, and so on and so forth rather quickly).</p>
<p>Chris_C, so even if I do well on the ACT, then you're basically saying that it's not necessary to take the SAT?</p>
<p>what should you do if you have strong SAT2s and a strong ACT but a weak SAT1 (since most colleges make you submit either the ACT or the SAT+SAT2s)</p>
<p>usually SATII's are seperate, besides thats what i am planning on doing</p>
<p>calmy8899,</p>
<p>Exactly, I know people who have gotten into Columbia with an ACT of 31, Harvard and Columbia with a 32, and Princeton, UPenn, and Yale with a 33. </p>
<p>Yes, they all took the SAT, but did better on the ACT and submitted it instead of the SAT.</p>