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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in another country and took the ACT with no prep just incase.  I ended up going to university in my home country.  I got a 96th percentile score on the ACT.  I’m a good test taker but it seemed basic.  Has it gotten harder over the years?

As a parent I’m between A and B.  My parents were super duper hands off, like C or D on this scale, and l still went to one of the best universities in the world with zero family support. Now I’m in DCUM land and realizing just how lax my parents were compared to most parents around here.  [/quote]

What age were you when you took it? It’s meant for a 17 year-old. Assuming you took it at that age and are from a foreign country, chances are that you were pretty good at school, otherwise you wouldn’t have been on a university track and ready to study in English (maybe not your native language). Also, if you considered leaving your country for college, you probably came from a decent socioeconomic background and a family who valued education. That academic and socioeconomic background is pretty similar to kids who score well on the test here too. [/quote]

All students in the USA take the same college entrance test - SAT or ACT regardless of your intended major or the college to which you are applying.  The art student and the engineering take the same test.  The Harvard and the community college kid take the same test.  You can't make the test too hard or specialized for all students.  In the UK you take A levels in different subjects and some colleges have their own entrance exams.

I think some posters are greatly exaggerating their educational and socialeconomic backgrounds and casting themselves as the B student.    The notion that a bright student who does minimal work in a low performing high school can score a 34 ACT on their first try, and then waltz through a top University in America without working hard is a figment of someone's imagination.[/quote]

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