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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The trend that I had been noticing is that American-born STEM students seemed to prefer the SAT - math is worth 50% and presumably they know English. Humanities students I know have done well on the ACT - Math counts for only 25%.[/quote]

interesting. both my dcs did the diagnostic and both came back with recs to take the ACT even though 1 DC is an insanely good math student (ACT made total sense for other as they are humanities all the way).

The salient points I remember - 
schools don't care about either
ACT is a much faster pace test - need to move through a lot of material to do well
[b]easier to improve math score with ACT while one can hit a ceiling on math score if not good at math[/b]

DCs ended up with identical ACT score - 35 - which shocked all of us, especially the not strong math kid who took the test a year later. Took test in April and DC thinks it was a lucky curve.[/quote]
can you explain this point? as compared to SAT? [/quote]

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