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7 Responses to "QotD: SAT or ACT?"

1. | Reply Daniel
   Posted 12 May 2005 at 9:56am #
   

   I only took the SAT, because I only looked at a few schools in NC, and they all only cared about the SAT.

2. | Reply Josh Hattersley
   Posted 12 May 2005 at 11:57am #
   

   Took 'em both, just for the hell of it. Did better on the SAT, though.

3. | Reply Todd
   Posted 12 May 2005 at 1:49pm #
   

   I also took both and scored better on the ACT. But both scores were submitted on college applications and I got in where I wanted.

4. | Reply Judi Sohn
   Posted 12 May 2005 at 4:48pm #
   

   I took both and did much better on the ACT. As a matter of fact, I got a scholarship in college based on my ACT score. I remember I did really well on the Social Studies portion and that brought my overall score up.

5. | Reply The Plaid Cow
   Posted 12 May 2005 at 6:00pm #
   

   I took both of them and don't think that either are an indication of much. I think my ACT score (31) was better than my SAT score, but I really don't remember that well.

6. | Reply Tim Buchheim
   Posted 12 May 2005 at 7:04pm #
   

   SAT. Just about every school (including all of them that I looked at) accepted SAT scores, and only a few accepted ACT scores. Plus I had to take a bunch of SAT II tests because some of the schools (the University of California campuses, for example) required them.

7. | Reply Bud Landry
   Posted 13 May 2005 at 12:14am #
   

   I took both.

   At the time, the reasoning given to me, whether it reflected reality or not, was that ACT was what the state universities preferred, and SAT was what the private universities preferred. Actually, better schools did like, and certainly accepted, both.