Are More Students Submitting ACT Scores?

By Catherine Gewertz (Edweek).

College admissions officers are seeing an increase in the number of students who are submitting ACT scores with applications, according to a survey released today.

In its 13th annual survey of admissions officers from 299 colleges and universities, Kaplan found that more students are submitting the ACT than they were a few years ago.

In the telephone poll conducted this summer, fewer admissions officers noticed a similar increase among students submitting both SAT and ACT scores, but those who did found the increase significant, the survey found.

Here’s how the results break down, with questions put to admissions officers, and their characterizations of how big a change they’ve seen: Go to article