There are two exams that are widely accepted for the purposes of college admissions and the distribution of merit scholarship money: SAT and ACT. While students throughout the U.S. know that they ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Both the SAT and ACT test students on core academic skills and are accepted at U.S. higher education institutions of all types.

The ACT and SAT are widely accepted by U.S. colleges, which often prompts students to ask: Which test should I take? The answer lies in understanding the differences between the two tests.

A growing number of schools no longer require SAT or ACT scores. Applying to test-optional schools is only one option to get into college without the SAT. Applicants can also consider community ...

More than 80 percent of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has ...

Last year, nearly one-quarter of Houston ISD's more than 50,000 high school students spent two hours and 14 minutes taking the SAT as part of a nationwide SAT School Day program. Not so for the ACT.

The release date of your scores depends on when you took the test and when your test was submitted, not on your scores, grade ...

Counter to the progressive groupthink on this issue, the study found that low-income students are actually harmed when SAT or ACT scores aren’t considered in their admissions application.

But what started as a pause is becoming more and more permanent. 75 percent of colleges aren’t requiring the SAT or ACT. Even Harvard officially called testing off until at least the class of ...

Dartmouth’s decision last week to reinstate its SAT or ACT requirement for admissions, and recent coverage extolling the benefits of standardized testing in predicting college success ...

Many colleges and universities require students to submit scores from the SAT or ACT—both nationally recognized standardized exams—as a part of their admissions process. So how do you know ...