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Nick Anderson, writing for the Washington Post Back in March 2014:
Coleman’s vision for the SAT, with emphasis on analysis of texts from a range of disciplines as well as key math and language concepts, appears to echo the philosophy underlying the Common Core and could help the test track more closely with what students are learning in the nation’s classrooms.
Genevieve Hummer, staff reporter at The Michigan Daily:
[The University of Michigan] has long accepted either ACT or SAT scores with admission applications, so there is no immediate impact at UM from this change by the state,” University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald wrote in an e-mail.
The Detroit News:
Michigan’s high school juniors will be required to take the SAT college assessment exam instead of the ACT next spring ...
Quoted in the article, here's Wendy Zdeb-Roper, Executive Director of the MASSP:
Colleges and universities have not even seen the test yet and will need to re-norm their acceptance standards, since it will include a new scoring scale ...
Later in the article:
Jim Cotter, Michigan State University’s director of admissions, said he expects the impact on the admission review process will be minimal.
By my measure, the gap between "re-norm their acceptance standards" and "the impact ... will be minimal." is pretty huge.