Just a thought - at our HS, we honor 36 ACTs as well, but what “skews” the perception is, that each testing area has its own score - and still deserves recognitions. So there are a good number of students being called on stage, many achieving an admirable 36 in one of the categories, while their other scores may have been 34 or 35s.
Only if you listened carefully to each student’s individual itemization, did you find out how few (if any) had an overall score of 36 that year.