<p>Given your outstanding GPA, they’ll give you some wiggleroom on your ACT score. Your ACT score doesn’t seem to reflect your abilities as evidenced by your GPA, which took 3 years of effort to achieve. What happens with many people is that the same focus, time and effort to get those good grades works against them in a timed test. When this occurs, familiarization with the test through repeated practice test taking usually helps. If you have the money, tutoring can efficiently identify what the issues are in your particular case that are preventing you from doing well, and really focus the practice and guidence to those specific areas.</p>
<p>My daughter had a 26 composite from the April ACT. After tutoring, for just 16 hours, she raised her composite 4 points. She’ll be retaking the ACT in September to see whether she can boost it another couple of points, since her science wasn’t up to her usual average. She said the science portion was exceptionally tough this time around.</p>
<p>Even with the high GPA, if you don’t increase that standardized score a bit, your chances for direct admission to chem would have to be classified as a reach, and DGS is likely a reach to slight reach. Do apply however, no matter what. It’s the only way to know for sure.</p>