For a 7th grader first time taking ACT and never practice before, what is regarded as a good score?? What is the score required to admit to Stanford online high school?? Thanks
Google search … Median score for a 7th grader is 10. Nobody measures whether the test-taker has practiced or not.
There is no minimum score required, but you do need to take it.
Also, if you are applying for 8th grade, you need to choose from Middle SSAT or ISEE, PSAT 8/9, or PreACT 8/9. You don’t need to take the actual ACT.
https://onlinehighschool.stanford.edu/criteria-standardized-testing#testing
Depends vastly on your social group. When I took it for a UW program I applied to in 8th grade, I got a 31. I was humiliated by my friends, who all got 33-35.
For a 7th grader, with about a month’s worth of studying, 27+ should be no problem.
Mine already took ACT in Feb. But we missed the application deadline so we will have to apply next year. Just want to see normally how the successful candidate scored in ACT
@Aryakhan81 Saying a 27+ is “no problem” for a 7th grader with studying is laughable. The median score for 7th graders is a 10. Many of those probably studied. Pretty much everything on the ACT is high school material, there’s no way, even with studying, a 7th grader could get a 27+ just by studying. Getting a 27 as a 7th grader would put you in the 97th percentile of all test takers.
Something makes me think you’re lying about those “humiliating” ACT scores.
But that’s real. DS has 2 friends got 27 and 28 without studying. They are in his GT class. They are truly gifted. We do believe they did not study. Why study for 7th grade?? Parents with kids in 7th grade just want to see their kids’ real ability and identify what to improve so there is no point studying
A 27 may be no problem for a “gifted” kid, but saying that a 27 is “no problem” for any 7th grader is false and gives unnecessary and unhealthy expectations.
izrk02, I myself never say 27 is a no problem. I did not even mentioned any score to start with. You said you did not believe any 7th graders ever got that score so I told you my DS has friends achieved that…I think any score is possible. low or high. There are always smart kids and not so smart kids
Oh, I just saw Aryakhan81’s post. That’s probably a pretty arrogant saying
Stanford OHS has some of the highest scoring kids in the country.
I would think that most kids who submit ACT scores would only submit 27+. Anecdotally I know a number of kids who submitted 1500+ SAT scores when applying for 9th grade (including my own, who takes a single course at OHS now).
If you do not think you can score 27+ on the ACT, I think I would lean towards the SSAT or ISEE and target 90%+ overall percentile scores. Many kids will get in with lower scores, of course, but I think above 90% the scores tend to have a very positive impact on your admissions chances.
OHS is not super selective by admissions percentages (roughly 30-40% are admitted, although some are conditional or limited admissions), but the school does tend to attract an applicant group that is very strong academically.
Best of luck!
Apologies for coming across as arrogant. The OHS program is a very competitive program to get into (per anecdotal evidence and @OneMoreToGo2021’s post), so a good score might help.
As for my situation, the friends I mentioned were all in an highly accelerated GT program and didn’t study whatsoever. I had to learn many new concepts in math spending 4+ hours per week, which is why I was teased (I had a bad friend group in middle school).
I just meant that, as has been echoed by @izrk02, any score is possible. You mention that your student is in a GT program – with some studying, I have full confidence that they will achieve the score they want.
These are the minimum standard’s for Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program. For a 7th grader they expect a 22M/20H if taken in the fall or a 23M/21H if taken in the spring.
I think that the comment about CTY minimums was intended to illustrate what a major player in advanced and gifted education considers to be exceptional ACT scores for a 7th grader.
However, these scores have little relevance for OHS purposes. To be blunt, if you can only score the CTY minimum, you probably do not belong at Stanford OHS and will not have a good experience there. I think about 30-35% of the graduating seniors, for example, score 800 on the SAT math section, and the overall 25-75 for the group is 1440-1560 (so fully 25% of the outgoing class scores in the top 0.50% of SAT takers).
Many OHS kids participated in 7th grade talent searches, and qualified for SET (over 700 on either math or verbal SAT or both prior to 13th birthday). Academically, OHS classes are quite a lot more difficult than just about any other high school out there. One look at the curriculum, which includes for instance five years of math available past BC Calculus and at least two years of physics past AP Physics C, will tell you that this is not an ordinary group of kids.
Totally agreed with what OneMoreToGo2021 said. Is SSAT easier than ACT/SAT?? We are late to the game, I just learned about SOH and we passed the application deadline. Mine already qualified for advanced CTY and Duke TiP but we missed the 13 years old window for SET. I did notice a huge difference when I look at the courses listed in curriculum. If we opted to do online 8th grade next year, do you think Dwight or Lauren Spring is a good choice too as we can still apply now.
@OneMoreToGo2021, please check the course listing for SOHS again. To say that the math courses after BC are five years worth is a bit misleading. As their own flow chart indicates–it 3.5 years worth (Seven semesters of courses available). The other 2 years/4 semesters of classes shown are for those who take Honors PreCalc and do not continue to Calc. Still impressive, however!
@sweetflo - I think SSAT is a bit “easier” than the ACT/SAT, but there are fewer prep materials available, and the kids who take it are targeting private high schools and so tend to be fairly well prepared academically. That makes scoring a bit tougher at the higher levels (say, over 85% range) because a few wrong answers can cost you. Nevertheless, the math in particular is less difficult than that of the SAT/ACT, though perhaps a bit less straightforward than the ACT. SSAT also has a verbal section (at least it did when S21 took it), which you either love or hate.
@ChezCurie - I certainly did not want to mislead anyone. While technically 4 of the OHS semester courses available at the university level do not require calculus as a prerequisite, at least 3 of them ordinarily require calculus when offered in colleges and universities: number theory, discrete math, and geometry (here lattice point geometry, which relies heavily on combinatorics). These are not basic courses; for instance, the number theory course uses the Stark text. At universities and colleges, all these or similar courses usually require successful completion of the intro sequences in calculus (at the BC level) in order to ensure that the students have enough sophistication to take them. I probably should have just said that OHS offers 5 years’ worth of math beyond the typical high school level!