Sat-act Requirements
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Dennis King asked:
In researching admission requirements to a college or university an important task is to know each institution’s ACT and/or SAT requirements. Admission requirements vary from school to school. Some put more emphasis on grade point average, extracurricular activities, or your essay and your ACT or SAT scores are optional. Others require your standardized test scores and is the primary assessment vehicle. Others have minimum ACT or SAT requirements for admission regardless of your grade point average. So researching to know what each institution seeks is vital.
Also a couple of colleges no longer require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores as part of their admission requirements. Their reasoning is concern about the validity of standardized test scores in predicting academic success along with the degree to which test performance correlates with household income, parental education and race. Some schools that have made standardized test scores optional have found that they have attracted a more diverse student body with no decline in academic ability.
Some colleges will only accept one of the standardized test scores. Usually schools on each coast lean towards the SAT scores, while schools in the middle of the country base their admission requirements on your ACT scores. This is not a fast and true rule, so again research each school.
If you haven’t figured it out, do your homework for each school to determine their admission requirements. For all it will be one or more of the following; standardized test scores, others your high school curriculum, grade point average, writing ability, extracurricular activities, or evidence of character and talent.
Lydia
In researching admission requirements to a college or university an important task is to know each institution’s ACT and/or SAT requirements. Admission requirements vary from school to school. Some put more emphasis on grade point average, extracurricular activities, or your essay and your ACT or SAT scores are optional. Others require your standardized test scores and is the primary assessment vehicle. Others have minimum ACT or SAT requirements for admission regardless of your grade point average. So researching to know what each institution seeks is vital.
Also a couple of colleges no longer require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT scores as part of their admission requirements. Their reasoning is concern about the validity of standardized test scores in predicting academic success along with the degree to which test performance correlates with household income, parental education and race. Some schools that have made standardized test scores optional have found that they have attracted a more diverse student body with no decline in academic ability.
Some colleges will only accept one of the standardized test scores. Usually schools on each coast lean towards the SAT scores, while schools in the middle of the country base their admission requirements on your ACT scores. This is not a fast and true rule, so again research each school.
If you haven’t figured it out, do your homework for each school to determine their admission requirements. For all it will be one or more of the following; standardized test scores, others your high school curriculum, grade point average, writing ability, extracurricular activities, or evidence of character and talent.
Lydia
