Reply to ACT super score of 33 - retake or good enough?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "ACT super score of 33 - retake or good enough?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH's cousin used to work in college admissions at two highly selective schools:

"We divide up by scores. So let's say ACT - 35/36 go into a pile, then 34, then 33. Blah blah."

OP, as you can see, that puts your DC in the third pile before even read.[/quote]
This isn’t relevant at most selective schools who don’t get many applicants with 36/35 scores. At the tippy top, sure.[/quote]

Okay, I misused "selective" here: the cousin worked for 2 T5 LACs and 1 T15 university early in career. They know what they are talking about. [/quote]
I believe that is true at Amherst or Stanford absolutely, but early in their career all students were submitting scores, yes? So things have changed and the average score now is raising higher at schools like Tulane not because the student population is changing but because only those who have scores at the top are even submitting. I think we need to help our kids but also not get crazy when they are applying to the sorts of schools OP mentioned.  I don’t think Tulane has a large stack of 36 ACT scores in that pile you mention, for instance. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics