<p>I'm conflicted because I know the SATs are more credible and are the more conventional test scores to send (I live on the east-coast) However, my ACT scores are slightly better. I'm considering sending both to colleges but don't know whether it'll benefit or hurt my chances of getting accepted. What do you guys suggest, and what would you do if you were in my position?</p>
<p>Based on my experience, a high sat score tends to be more highly regarded than a high act score. The acts are treated as the easier test of the two. </p>
<p>Thank you for your response but I would like some direct answers to the question i’m actually asking!</p>
<p>OP, from your post you seem to be a HS student. What experience are you basing this on? ACTs and SATs are treated the same. Send the better one. </p>
<p>I would send your ACT. Your ACT is better, especially your reading score. </p>
<p>I’m an east coast applicant also, and people tell me that I shouldn’t send my ACT scores even though they’re the same as my SAT scores because “colleges prefer SATs.” Those people are full of hooey. They are the same people who insist to me that Ivy League schools are “going broke” (her words, not mine) and that even though Harvard’s endowment is 32 billion dollars, “that runs out really fast.” </p>
<p>People are often wrong. Not maliciously, but because they rely on incorrect information that their sister told them, and the sister was told by her best friend’s acquaintance whose ex-boyfriend got rejected by one school where he sent his ACT and accepted by one he sent his SAT to, so clearly the ACT must be looked down upon. </p>
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