The good news for ACT, Inc is that their offering, the eponymous ACT, is the runaway first choice of students nationwide this year. The bad news for students is that the ACT is experiencing growing pains. Currently those symptoms are presenting as delayed scoring of the new essay for the fall test dates, which primarily affects 12th graders. In the spring, our concern is that the ACT test centers here in CA (and other areas where the SAT had historically been more popular) will run out of seats. We always encourage our 11th grade clients to finalize test dates early anyway, and this advance planning will be especially important this year.
Public Service Announcement: Register Now for 2016 ACT Test Dates!
Registration is handled online at http://www.actstudent.org. At this blog post’s time of publication, the following sampling of test centers popular with our students in CA still had seats available:
| Southern California (Greater LA/OC Area) | Northern California (Greater SF/SJ Bay Area) |
|---|---|
| Blair High School (Pasadena) | Berkeley High School |
| Calabasas High School | Carlmont High School (Belmont) |
| El Camino Real High School (Woodland Hills) | CSU East Bay (Hayward) |
| Hamilton High School (Palms) | Fremont High School (Sunnyvale) |
| Harvard-Westlake School (Studio City) | Lincoln High School (San Jose) |
| Huntington Beach High School | Mills High School (Millbrae) |
| Palos Verdes High School | Mountain View Academy |
| Redondo Union High School | Novato High School |
| Saddleback College (Mission Viejo) | Sacred Heart Prep (San Francisco) |
| Mater Dei High School (Santa Ana) | San Francisco School of the Arts |
| San Francisco State University | |
| Santa Monica College | Santa Teresa High School (San Jose) |
| University High School (West LA) | Skyline High School (Oakland) |
| Van Nuys High School | Terra Linda High School (San Rafael) |
