The ACT took the top spot.

The Washington Post reports.

The SAT, now the No. 2 college test, pushes to reclaim supremacy

The SAT, once the nation’s dominant college admission exam, fell behind the ACT in recent years after its rival locked up huge swaths of the market through contracts to provide testing in public schools and more students in the Washington area and elsewhere realized that top colleges and universities would accept either test.

Now the SAT’s owner, the College Board, has mounted a comeback in its bid to regain supremacy as a new version of the venerable test is about to be rolled out nationwide in March. The competition between the ACT and SAT — two tests of similar length, nearly four hours long (counting essays), but with significant stylistic differences — affects millions of college-bound students who slog through the grueling ritual every year.

This month Illinois and Colorado took steps toward awarding contracts to the College Board to give the SAT to 11th-graders in public schools, at no charge to the students. Michigan will give the SAT to high school juniors statewide in April for the first time, also for free to the students. Previously, the ACT had a virtual lock on testing in all three states through contracts.