So everyone. I took the ACT college entrance exam for the LAST time. Really, it's the dead last time I'm qualified for. I know absolutely nothing about the SAT, so I'm not terribly interested in those scores (I think that's an east coast/west coast thing). I've gotten up to a 29 and have taken it darn near 7 times if I'm counting right.
The state of Missouri offers a $2,000/year scholorship if you score a 30-31 (wherever the top 3% falls). Also, I'm going to Rockhurst and their policy is that they'll MATCH the 2 grand from the state. Anyway, I'm just a ball of worry here in my room and wondering what scores you all may have rung up.

Ryan

 

Good luck!

A kid from my high school scored a 36 on the exam a few years ago. I've heard there isn't a measureable percentile for that kind of score. He also scored a 1650 or something like that on the SAT... Last I heard, he is attending Cal-Poly at no cost to him.

 

I scored 25 @ age 15 and 27 @ age 16. I was a late bloomer, so take that with a grain of salt. The verbal and english weren't my strong suits. I think I scored 29-30 on the math portion.

If you list the individual scores, we may be able to offer better advice.

Chris

 

What grade were you in? Im assuming 9th and 10th. I didnt know you could take it that early...

 

Yeah, I did take the test in 7th grade, scored a 19.

Since then I started at the end of sophmore year. I got a 25 the first 'real' time I took it at age 16 I believe, and creeped up to 29, and regessed back to 28 last time... I'm rackin in 30-33 in the math/science portion, but 25-26 in the reading/english poopy sections. I don't know why but those sections are juuuuust low enough to drag the overall score under 30.

 

Hey i took mine yesterday too.

First time for me in highschool . the time in middle school. i scored a 21 in 8th grade.

I'm taking it again next year. I took the ACT plus the writing thing.


Good Luck

DT

 

I got a 21 the first and last time I took it. Not great by any means, but it got me into MSSU, and plus, our average in my class was somewhere around 16, so I felt pretty good about myself.

 

I got a 33 the only time I took it in '77. Wish I'd have taken more math classes in high school, since I ended up as a chemical engineer. BTW, I ended up with ZERO scholarships, and ended up in the Navy for 6 years before going to college.

 

I took it in 7th or 8th grade and got something around a 20. When I took it "for real" in my junior year, I got a 30. I didn't get any scholarships for it, either. But they give you a scholarship for doing well on standardized school testing, what we call "MEAP" tests or whatever.

 

34 composite back in '70 with a 21 in English which was not a strong subject... Several scholarships tho.

 

I pulled an 18 I think. I didn't need it though. since I started off at a junior college

 

Took it once, got a 19... was more than happy.

STan

 

I never took any preparation classes for it, they sent me a study booklet and I never looked at it, went out drinking with a few buddies the night before the ACT's, puked in the parking lot outside of the testing place when I opened the door of my truck. I had a splitting headache and a BAD hangover, gut was hurtin and I got a 24 on it. Everything except the reading comprehension/english stuff was near 30, the english/reading parts were low 20-19, which brought me down to a 24. That was in 1996, I have since gradutead with 2 degree and am doing quite well, I now spend much of my life trying to teach the error of my ways to others so they don't do the same.

 

I took the ACT on like one days notice or something like that.

I forget how long, really, but in an effort to save $30 extra or whatever the late reg. fee for the SAT was, I lost all loyalty to my past PSAT effort and made a 27 composite tossing and turning all night in bed before the test at 7am on a Saturday morning.

My science was a 24, but that was a LOT of reading in that section and I couldn't get thru the last 2 pages before time ran out.

SAT blows. You have to "infer" most of that test, ACT is stuff you already know, which makes me wonder what's the big SAT "hoohaw" when most schools take both for entrance?

Speaking of that, to get into the Bachelor's degree program this fall, I had to take the CAAP test. It's the college level ACT, I suppose. Got national merit (and the nice certificate) for being like Top 10%ile in college cal/algebra/writing/comprehension. Not bad for not being in school since 2002 and not seeing Cal 3 since 2001. I doubt the 1st year of college on my transcript got me in, since I dropped about half what I signed for, since I didn't care much back then. Thankfully, I was cajoled by a great dept chair to stop working too much and blowing off classes.

4 semesters (or sooner) of this and then MBA/MIE time at Cougar U. I hope some money falls from a tree or I have a decent self-funding source by then. I think I am the ONLY person other than my aunt on the family tree to have as much as an AAS. That's a LOT of um, suckage? IF I bust out a next generation in like 20 years, I guess they ought to have a better shot at upward mobility.

 

I remember that when I took the ACT, I slept through the first half of it. The proctor woke me up and asked me if I wanted to finish the test. I still managed to pull out a 25. not too shabby for nap time.