<p>I was born in Korea, and right now I live in LA.
I'm not really good at English.
If I take the ACT, would it look bad? (if I can get relatively the same score in the SAT as I do in the ACT)</p>
<p>Thankx</p>
<p>Pretty much all American schools take the ACT, and they weight it equally compared to the SAT. If they accept scores from both, they truly don't care which one you take. Lots of people do better on one than the other, so try both, at least in practice, to see which one is better for you.</p>
<p>Sorry...but thats complete crap.
The SAT is and will always be the test colleges want to see.
The ACT is nothing more than an SAT II substitute and an SAT complement.
I dont care what your tutor said, the SAT still holds more weight with colleges.</p>
<p>Why not just take both?</p>
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<p>everytime i see that, i want to punch someone. give me some proof buddy..</p>
<p>pocketref2ll, you are 100% wrong. Ask any college admissions person at the schools you want to apply to, and they'll tell you they're weighted EQUALLY. I've read a lot about this and have talked to schools, and while they used to prefer the SAT, they actually don't anymore. Try Googling it and see what you find.</p>
<p>^^^
I second that. Popularity of the test is somewhat regional, but it helps to try both and see which fits you best. Some of my friends have okay SAT scores and great ACT scores and some are the reverse. All of my target schools (UCs, Stanford, USC) take either test without prejudice.</p>
<p>Based on my experience, posts #2 , #6 & #7 are offering you good advice. Because your post stated that your English language skills are poor, you will probably score higher on the ACT as English is only one of four scored sections while on the SAT I it is two of three scored sections.</p>
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<p>This statement is baloney. It is explicitly denied by Yale, Harvard, and other highly selective colleges. </p>
<p>All</a> four-year U.S. colleges now accept ACT test - USATODAY.com</p>
<p>^^ absolutely true, that colleges don't care which test you take. </p>
<p>However, on the ACT board another poster mentioned that the ACT was difficult for internationals or those who struggle with English because of the ACT's importance on speed -- not to say that internationals aren't fast test takers (they certainly can be), but that taking a speed test in a foreign language is really tough.</p>
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<p>Agreeing with bluebayou's statement just above, it's not clear to me that a student who learned English as a second language will necessarily find the ACT easier than the SAT. As the previous post I've just quoted said, try both and see which one is more comfortable to you. My son calls the ACT the "American Reading Test," because he thinks it is ALL reading--especially the science section. If you are a good reader of English, you can do very well on the ACT, but most students don't read that well.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, i forgot to clarify that all colleges openly acknowledge that the act holds the same weight as the sat.</p>
<p>However, being a new test, it is simply naive to think that EVERY college thinks of them as 100 percent equal. The SAT has dominated standardized testing for decades without any substitute (while the act has been in existence), and it will most definitely take more than three or four years of acknowledgment after all this time that both have existed (unequally), to create full balance of the two. </p>
<p>It baffles me that a test still substituted for SAT II's can be thought of as identical. People don't fully change their minds from tradition just because The ACT Organization has put pressure on schools to accept it as equal.</p>
<p>I'll take what the colleges say about this subject seriously. There is no problem with taking the ACT. </p>
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