<p>I took the SAT twice, a month apart, and didn't have much time to study for the test. My second SAT was only 10 points higher at 1200 for CR & Math. </p>
<p>Although I'll probably stay in-state and am assured admission to our state schools, our state criteria for the amount of scholarship I might receive is based on GPA and test scores. My GPA is 3.8 weighted, 4.2 unweighted, SAT 1200.</p>
<p>If I take the ACT, will that confuse my applications, especially since I've already been admitted to one school and scholarship decisions will be made sometime in October at that school? </p>
<p>I will be receiving a state tuition waiver at our state schools all four years, so if I stay in-state my hope is for a scholarship in excess of tuition because I can't piggyback both the waiver and any scholarship. Scholarships at our state schools are anywhere from $2500 to the highest award of $9,000.</p>
<p>I don't know how much I can improve my SAT score, having already tried once. Do you recommend the ACT or another try at the SAT?</p>
<p>If there is a possibility of earning the scholarship money you are hoping for I would say study for and take the ACT-it is a different test and you might like your results better than your SAT. You do not have to have the ACT scores sent to any schools until after you get your results-so if you don't like the results don't send them and if you do, you can send them after you have seen them first(costs a bit more and takes more time this way). I'm not sure how soon you could take the ACT and get your scores-seems pretty tight if you need it all done by Oct. As far as confusing the applications process, I don't think this is a problem and it is possible that the school you are interested in would consider raising your scholarship amount after their initial decision in Oct. if you perform bettter on the SAT or ACT but don't have those results until after thier initial award decision. I would start this whole process with asking the school if they will accept scores after their initial award decision and if they are opening to ammending the scholarship amount accordingly if you do better-all the rest kinda depends on what they say. Good luck to you!</p>