Take your pick or take them both!

[jonriv]

Been visiting colleges with my son(non-athletic) and it has been made very clear by each school we have visited-they accept either the SAT or the ACT (they all super-scored as well) Most schools will use the higher of the two , so why not take both? For some reason, some students do better on the ACT.

[hit4power]

Some do, some don't (do better on the ACT) Mine didn't. My two cents is that if you are going to take both, you need to prep for both. The tests are different and the strategies to take the test (answer the tricky questions) are different. Pays to study and learn the test strategies for both exams.

My other free advice is to take practice exams and really dissect what your kid gets wrong and correct their process for determining the answers they missed. We found this was the real bang for the buck of a good tutor. They can look at what your kid missed and really hone their test taking skills for the second time around. The SAT folks will never admit it, but good test taking skills are worth 100 points or more, IMO.

[jonriv]

prep and practice are key for everything in life

[Sftbll4ever]

Both of my dd's schools took results from both and both did very well on the ACT. They were told that it was more like standard testing.