Do colleges that have traditionally favored the SAT have a bias against the ACT? If East Coast or West Coast students take the ACT, does that send up a red flag?
Virtually all schools that accept the SAT also accept the ACT. We have not known schools that accept both tests to discriminate against the ACT in favor of the SAT. The implication that students from certain geographic areas may send up a red flag by taking the ACT erroneously implies that the ACT is an inferior test. The ACT is simply another sound educational assessment tool produced by ACT, Inc., a test research organization less familiar in certain areas than is the Educational Testing Service, which produces the SAT. We encourage each student to take seriously the opportunity to demonstrate his or her academic merit through hard work and determination, focused preparation, studying, and consolidating and integrating new academic material. Standardized tests—whether the ACT, the SAT, or other educational assessment tools—provide such an opportunity. However, standardized tests are just one part of a students application. High school grades, the rigor of the chosen curriculum, extra
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