<p>Hey,
I'm an International Student aspiring to enter an American University in Fall 2008. With this said, I have a question. </p>
<p>When researching, I realised there are two exams, SAT and ACT. So, which exam do you recommend, as an International Student take? The Universities I'm interested in are all on the east cost. Examples are: Cornell, Rutgers, UConn, NYU, Columbia, Binghamton, Amherst. Yes, it's alot. </p>
<p>Which brings it to another point, I really don't know, what Universities will accept me, since the grading standards is a bit different here, than USA. So, I was wondering - will the SAT/ACT help me in choosing the right Uni? </p>
<p>Thanks all. I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Most universities do not care which one you take. I suggest you skim a prep book and see what kind of material you are more familiar with. ACT tends to favor raw knowledge, and I'm not entirely sure what the SAT does, they say reasoning though. So as long as you take one or both, your fine.</p>
<p>You can take both exams, but don't list any colleges down to get score reports. Wait until you see how you do on both. I know someone who got low 1200s on SAT but got 35 on ACT. If she hadn't listed any colleges for Collegeboard to send out score reports, those colleges never would've known about the 1200 score. She could've just sent the ACT after finding out that score. Yeah, you're giving up the free 4 score reports and paying extra to send them out afterwards, but it would've been worth it in this case.</p>
<p>Typo: Got 33 instead of 35.</p>
<p>All schools in America accept both tests. So, take both and see which one you do better on.</p>
<p>To be honest, i would say ACT. Not trying to undermine u or anything, but u say u are international? Where are you from? Because having english as my second language, that vocab crap was hard on the SAT. however, i did amazingly better on the reading even with the vocab then i did on the reading on the act just because of the time limit</p>