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[quote=Anonymous]This is a hugely important question and the prior answers maybe don't emphasize enough how much this happens.  The ACT is a much, much better test for kids who work fast and have stronger reading comprehension skills but are not math kids.  (3/4 of the sections are really about reading comprehension/decoding.)  The current system steers kids towards the SAT, so it might take 2-3 practice tests on the ACT to get a sense that they have a competitive advantage on it.  FWIW, both my kids were strongly competitively advantaged on the ACT versus the SAT.  My first kid did one-on-one SAT test prep for several months with absolutely no results, and was testing at the 80-85th percentile, and then we grasped this at the very last minute (test prep company sucked) and hit 99th percentile on the ACT, first and last time they took the ACT for real.  Second kid had the advantage of this lesson learned.  Was also about a 75th percentile SAT kid.  Initial couple of ACT practice tests scored low because DC was unfamiliar with the format, but with the experience from DC #1 we felt confident predicting that DC2 also processed very quickly but maybe not so deeply and was much stronger on reading comprehension than math.  Did targeted test prep for less than two months and also hit 99%th percentile on ACT.  For both kids it was a game-changer in terms of college admissions.[/quote]

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