I am very confident in my SAT score, but I am also thinking about whether or not I should take the ACT. Is there a certain point where sending in only one test’s score would look the same as sending both in?
My D isn’t looking at highly selective schools but is chasing merit. We told her that if she scored over 2300 with a combined m+cr over 1500 she was done taking tests. In typical fashion she scored 2310 (M 750, CR 760, W 800) but in all fairness she only missed one math problem and the curve was really harsh.
Her high school offers a ‘free’ required ACT test but I did get her exempted from the ACT test since scored what we asked on her SAT.
You only need to have a good score in either test. It does not matter which one it is. Just check your practice scores in both test and decide which one you should focus on. In any case, you should not take a test unprepared. In other words, you should know your estimated score before registering for the test. If your ACT practice score is not going to be better than your SAT score, you may skip it.
Take the ACT if you bomb the SAT.
Try both, or you’ll have serious FOMO- trust me on this, I was once asking myself the same question, and I ended up only taking the SAT. Now I’ll never know if things could have gone differently.
If you tend to perform poorly in a particular section of the SAT (especially either math or reading), I’d suggest taking the ACT because adcoms almost always use the combined score rather than the individual subscores, unlike the SAT.
would you mind sharing your score? 2250/2300+, it’s definitely not worth you effort (you would have to get a 36 for a negligible score ‘upgrade’).