<p>Right now, my upcoming test is the ACT, but I was viewing the thread with acceptance letters and I noticed that about half of the people that were accepted only took one of the two tests. What do you guys think? (P.S. this is my first post on here so hey guys!)</p>
<p>They told me in high school (in state) to only take the SAT if I was planning on going outside the state of Michigan. So I didn’t take the SAT. If you are not confident about the ACT it might not hurt to take both if you think you’d do better on the SAT, but I think it usually goes the other way around?</p>
<p>I’d take both. Depending on your strongpoints (graph based interpretation, reading, math) it may be in favor to take one or the other, but the only certain way to know you’re getting the best possible scores is to take both.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Take both. It can’t hurt – you don’t have to send colleges your score for whichever test if you don’t do as well as you wanted.</p>
<p>I agree with the above posts mentioned that you should take both tests in their different formats as if you don’t do well on one but excel on the other than you will greatly improve your chances of being accepted. Honestly, my advice is on the test that you do the best on send that one in instead, as colleges and universities only require either the SAT or ACT. This is a loophole in a sense too, since they’ll never know what your score was on the one where you didn’t perform as well as you wanted to on turned out to be.</p>