ACT 33 - chasing higher score or being done?

TooOld4School
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:06:37 +0000

My son had a similar experience. He took the ACT cold before HS and got a 25, then in fall of his sophomore year and got a 33 (34,31,30,36). He was told that would be sufficient, but when he starting looking at elite engineering colleges over the summer between sophomore and junior years, he decided to take another shot (especially with a 31 math)

He studied off and on for a few weeks and concentrated only in his weak areas (reading,math). The math score was not surprising because he took algebra and geometry in middle school and had forgotten a lot of it. When he retook the test in spring of his junior year he improved across the board to a 36 (36,36,35,36).

As a result he was admitted to about half of his reach schools (full pay, unfortunately), and received full merit offers from a few more despite being an ORM. It was well worth retaking the test. She has plenty of time to re-take it again if she wants too.