<p>Which do colleges prefer? I have been told that they don't care whatsoever, but it just seems like because the SAT is more familiar to us, that the colleges <em>might</em> prefer it. In specific I'm talking about HPSM (minus Yale)...</p>
<p>There really is no preference. IMO, take both, see which one produces the higher score (if any) and then if you’re still not satisfied, focus your attention on the one you did better on. That’s what I did. I got an ehhh ok score on the SAT then a 33 on the ACT and took the ACT again to superscore with a 35. </p>
<p>For girls the ACT seems to be the easier exam, at least from what I’ve heard from friends and from personal experience. just an FYI</p>
<p>BTW NICE SCREENAME</p>
<p>Thanks lol…</p>
<p>I kind of suck at CR, but I found ACT reading to be much easier (I’m a guy).</p>
<p>Let me tell you, all you gotta do is practice practice practice
The first time around I got a 28 on Math (probably smoking crack) and then the second time I got a 35</p>
<p>WOW, nice improvement. Which would you say is easier to improve, ACT (reading/english) or SAT (CR/W)?</p>
<p>I’m actually not that bad at writing or english sections though, and I’m doing fine on math (800/35).</p>
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<p>There’s like two schools that superscore the ACT in the top 50. Georgia Tech and University of Chicago.</p>
<p>I thought MIT and Stanford superscore</p>
<p>There’s several schools that superscore the subscores but don’t recalculate the composite. I don’t know how Stanford does it, but then three. MIT’s policy seems sketchy as they obviously have composites, but supposedly they don’t look at composites.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, when do PSATs come out?</p>
<p>Regardless, they look at your scores and put you in the best light possible. So if you send everything in, they’ll look at your higher scores. Just because they don’t openly “superscore” they’re doing it anyways. </p>
<p>I think it’s more about a timing issue too. Would you rather get reading all out of the way at once or have to dread doing another reading section in about 40 mins? For me, I like to focus on one thing at a time and get stuff over with and move onto a blank slate. Others might have an issue with the 1-hr sections.</p>
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Someone with a 34 composite will look better than someone with subscores that create a 35 (off of 33s) at any school but the few schools that actually superscore (oh, I missed washington u in st.louis and tufts and a few 40 ranked schools). </p>
<p>It’s not uncommon at all for test difficulty between sections to vary. On one test the math might be easier and have a harder english, but another might have a harder math than english. ACT inc. specifically says that tests should never be superscored, because it doesn’t show anything.</p>
<p>I agree with you^ ^</p>
<p>Do you feel like your crunched for time on the ACT reading?</p>
<p>Oh then don’t worry cjgone, because I got a 34 composite anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyys. </p>
<p>Round 1: 35R, 34W, 28M, 33S
Round 2: 34R, 33W, 35M, 32S</p>
<p>** I do NOT feel crunched for time on ACT reading, it’s all about getting through each passage and answering as many questions you know fersure, and then getting back to the ones you’re iffy about just to make sure you get through the whole section.</p>
<p>Read passages 2,3,4,1 because passage 1 takes the most time 90% of the time.</p>
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Me too.</p>
<p>congratu-friggin-lations</p>