AMERICA- Fourteen test days for the 2017-2018 school year; six remaining for the SAT and seven for the ACT. According to the College Board, 1.36 million test-takers took the redesigned SAT in 2016. According to the 2016 ACT National Profile Report, 2,090,342 took the ACT test. The SAT and ACT according to PrepScholar, a website created by Harvard Alums is designed to help students with college admissions, states, “....a standardized test meant to show schools how prepared you are for college by measuring key skills like reading comprehension, computational ability, and clarity of expression. Because so many students take the test, it also provides schools with data about how you compare to your peers nationwide.” But students such as Senior …show more content…
According to Kat Cohen, COllege Admissions Officer, who also writes for the Huffington Post states, “Test scores need to be high enough to be in the ‘Let me think about it,’ pile instead of the ‘no’ pile...it becomes necessary to get an SAT/ACT score within the range of the averages at that school, or certain applications won’t even be considered.” No one really knows what these tests can do during college admissions, thus several people have their own interpretations of what these tests tell. Mr. Dennis Eller, Upper School College Counselor, states that the message he believes that these tests can tell college admissions officers is, “If you have a relatively high GPA, but a low test score sends a message to college admissions is that you work really hard. At the time if you have a low GPA, but a high test score can tell admissions officers that you are not working as hard as you should be.” There are those who say,”...students with perfect grades and perfect scores are often denied admission by America’s elite colleges. Harvard loves to reject students with perfect grades, 1600 SAT scores, with 3 800’s on the SAT Subject Tests…” according to Ivy Coach, a college counseling