What is the prestige difference between the SAT and ACT?

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<p>For those who asked about my earlier post, the trend toward taking, and submitting scores from, both tests to top schools has been covered frequently in recent blogs and articles. Here is an example from the NYT: <a href=“More Students Are Taking Both the ACT and SAT - The New York Times”>More Students Are Taking Both the ACT and SAT - The New York Times;
One excerpt:

Of this year’s 26,000 applicants to Princeton, 13 percent, or 3,477 students, submitted only ACT scores — up from 2 percent (385 of 17,000 applicants) for fall 2006. And almost 8,000 this year submitted scores from both tests. That is just fine with Janet Rapelye, dean of admissions — maybe even desirable.
“I don’t know all the pieces of why this is happening, but I think more students are trying to make sure they’ve done everything they can,” she said. “And for us, more information is always better. If students choose one or the other, that’s fine, because both tests have value. But if they submit both, that generally gives us a little more information.”

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