The ACT college entrance exam is going away in the state of Illinois.
The Associated Press reports that high school juniors will instead take the rival SAT exam moving forward.
Nick Spaeth is the associate vice president for admissions at Monmouth College. He tells WGIL the decision won’t have much an impact at all.
“We have always accepted the SAT or the ACT from prospective students to use for admissions decisions and that will continue regardless of the State’s decision,” Spaeth says.
District 205 Superintendent Ralph Grimm says he is uncertain of what the change could mean, adding that the ACT has been offered at no charge to students for years.
He goes on to say the ACT and the SAT are not so different.
“Both tests have at the core the same thing,” Grimm says. “They want to be able to predict the students success rate in college so in a very very general sense I think the two tests are similar in that regard.”
The Chicago Tribune reports the company that offers the ACT filed a protest to terminate a contract between Illinois and the College Board, which offers the SAT.
The contract is worth $14.3 million and is good for three years.
