ACT tests are a much better assessment than the SAT. Many colleges now ignore the SAT and use ACT scores, my son’s college did.
If you look at the average score at the top 50 Public Universities in the country with STEM degrees, most will say they accept either the ACT or SAT but when they report their average scores they only report the SAT score.
My son was wait listed with a score of 1540 at a Major Engineering School ( he got in! )
50 to 60 percent of all entering college freshman at the nations Public or Land Grant Universities must take remedial mathematics and English classes before they can begin their required freshman classes.
A degree without an integral and differential calculus requirement and a hard science like chemistry of physics nowadays is considered to be a 5th year of High School by many employers. It essentially answers questions about an individual that are now illegal to ask or test for in a job interview.