<p>SAT or ACT, which is preferale for college admission officers ? Does it depend on different college? I see so many students take SAT, also ACT. Do they submit both of them when they apply colleges? or just just one of them, the higher score?</p>
<p>thank you for your reply.</p>
<p>It depends. Most colleges would like to see SAT, but they can understand if you submit only ACT instead (usually because some schools out in the midwest do not offer SAT). </p>
<p>It’s definitely works to your advantage if you submits both scores, provided that they’re of equal levels (check the conversion charts!). If you’re just working to submit either one, then I believe SAT is better (unless of course, its a bad score).</p>
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<p>Incorrect. There is no preference.</p>
<p>There is <em>supposed</em> to be no preference.</p>
<p>^ Do you have evidence to the contrary?</p>
<p>Of course not.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that the ACT is worse than the SAT, by any means. Both tests are rigorous, and they both test different things. The SAT, I’m sure you know, tests critical thinking and problem solving, while the ACT is focused more on content. </p>
<p>Of course, high scores on both would be fantastic. But if you had to choose, would you rather be known as a great critical thinker/problem solver or a great content-learner?</p>
<p>Those questions are irrelevant. Colleges say that they consider them equally. Unless you can present data that belie that claim, we need to assume that they are telling the truth.</p>
<p>Plus, most admissions officers aren’t even very familiar with the tests.</p>
<p>^Really? :o</p>
<p>In response to the hypothetical scenario, I don’t think the critical thinker/problem solver is necessarily better than the great content learner. Of course, it could be argued either way. But since novad3mon argues for the sat, I’ll defend the act.</p>
<p>We go to high school for four years, learning the required subjects, to prepare for college. So in what way would an exam testing those subjects be considered inferior? School official across the country have decided on a set of classes that are needed to enter college. A student who aces the ACT proves that he’s absorbed his classes.</p>
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That is what the respective testing agencies say, but they are much more similar than different.</p>
<p>This topic has been done to death on CC. The answer is that all colleges and universities express no preference for either test and they are viewed equally in the admissions process. Statistically, it is more difficult to achieve a perfect score on the ACT than on the SAT, but no school that I am aware of is keeping score.</p>
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<p>You’ve got it backwards.</p>
<p>If I were to guess, 36/36/36/36 is less frequently obtained than 800/800/800.</p>
<p>yes, but if you were to achieve 36/36/36/35, you would still have a composite score of 36, making the SAT tougher. 800/800/790 wouldn’t give you a 2400.</p>
<p>@mickjagger</p>
<p>Yeah but the difference between a 2390 and a 2400 is minimal and insignificant. Just go take a look at the SAT sub forum to see all the students asking if they should retake a 2390. Receiving a score of 2400, to a 2390, is more or less just bragging rights.</p>
<p>To the OP it’s always recommended you take both to see how to fare. Then just take the highest score out of the 2 and send it in. Easy as that.</p>
<p>that wasn’t my point. i’m saying that you can score a 36 (full score) on the ACT even if you don’t ace each of the sections, whereas on the SAT you can’t get a full score unless you ace each of the sections. my opinion is that this is why it is harder to get 2400 on the SAT.</p>
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<p>I don’t think that I’ve ever seen even one.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/880968-should-i-retake-1590-2340-sat-score.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/880968-should-i-retake-1590-2340-sat-score.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/645525-would-you-retake-sat-2330-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/645525-would-you-retake-sat-2330-a.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/246126-retaking-sat-2340-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/246126-retaking-sat-2340-a.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/52933-would-you-retake-2390-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/52933-would-you-retake-2390-a.html</a></p>
<p>Not all of them are 2390 but retaking anything over a 2300 is pretty much useless.</p>
<p>I know there was another one, I just can’t find it where the kid got a near perfect score but his essay received a low score so he was going to appeal etc etc just to get a 2400.</p>
<p>^ None of those are threads of people asking if they should retake 2390. You implied that there were many. I understand your point, but you were significantly exaggerating.</p>
<p>I clearly said not all of them are 2390 retakes.</p>
<p>I guess <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/52933-would-you-retake-2390-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/52933-would-you-retake-2390-a.html</a> doesn’t qualify as one either?</p>
<p>And you are right. I could of selected my words more effectively by not using all but there are still people, especially on CC, who ask such a frivolous question.</p>