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[quote=Anonymous]THERE IS NO DEMOGRAPHIC CLIFF.

YES, BARRING SEVERE TESTING ANXIETY SHE NEEDS TO TEST. And then she can decide whether or not to send her scores.

Sorry for shouting at you, OP, but it's maddening how some myths persist. The demographic decline is going to spread out slowly over time. It's a leisurely roll downhill. You should NOT take it into account.

The trend is for more colleges to slowly required testing again, after belatedly realizing that academic testing is by far the least inequitable means of evaluating students. It won't happen for your kid, who will still have practically all colleges be test-optional. But even for test-optional places, it would advantage her to prove that her AP scores are not a fluke.

And no, math is not 25% of the ACT, if she decides to skip the science portion of it, which is now optional (but again, highly recommended). Also, the ACT has logs, more geometry and miscellaneous questions in math than the SAT, which mainly draws from Alg 1 and Alg 2.

The main difference between the SAT and the ACT is that the former has more in-depth questions about a narrower range of topics and more time per question; and the latter has fewer in-depth questions about a wider range of topics but less time per question. The SAT questions are blessedly short, even the reading comprehension, which is great for distracted kids; and the ACT passages for reading and science are very long. So kids need to try both and pick the ones they prefer!

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