<p>Hello! Thank you so much for taking your time to read and respond to this!</p>
<p>I am a senior who has taken both the ACT and the SAT. I took the ACT in February and got a 35 composite, which I figured was enough to not have to fret when applying to colleges. My score is in the range of schools like Stanford and MIT (which I dearly want to go to), which is where the bad on my part falls.</p>
<p>I go to a public high school in New Mexico, and so there's not a lot of counseling towards the higher Universities. Students are encouraged to take the ACT, but I always considered the writing part of the test to be a sort of scam; I was told it wasn't "necessary", it just helped. As such, I took the ACT -without- writing, and got my 35 on a test that I cannot send into schools like MIT or Stanford, because they need a score with writing for admissions.</p>
<p>So, I took the nearest available SAT test date, so I could get a score that admissions officers would accept. I took the SAT this October, and got a 2220. This score, however, is significantly lower than my ACT "converts" to (if you trust ACT->SAT conversions). I was wondering if I should submit my ACT scores to colleges, even if it doesn't have the writing portion. I have the SAT test with writing, so I have the test that is necessary for admissions. Would it hurt me to send in my ACT as well, since it's such a high score? (I really would hate to see it go to waste). Or would sending my ACT make no difference and just waste my money?</p>
<p>Thanks so much, again.</p>