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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ACT is heavily favored in certain geographic areas, so I can't see how this is true.[/quote]

I thought this was interesting, so I did a search.  This is been less and less true, over the last ten years. When I was applying for college, highly rated colleges only accepted the SAT. Regionally, the ACT predominated in the Midwest and the SAT on the coasts. After all colleges started taking both, the ACT has become more and more popular, and the regional preference has been diluted. The northeast still leans toward SAT, and the upper Midwest the ACT, but most states are in then middle.  Of course, colleges get applicants from all over, so regional preferences don’t always reflect what the colleges see in terms of applicants, especially for colleges that aren’t state flagships. Apparently, 2017 was the first year that over half of the applicants to Ivy League colleges submitted the ACT.

https://betterprepsuccess.com/info/popularity

https://www.collegeraptor.com/getting-in/articles/act-sat/preference-act-sat-state-infographic/[/quote]

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