What’s the college journey like for a student who scored the nation’s average ACT score (21)? These FAQs show you.
https://www.collegeconfidential.com/articles/student-scored-21-act-heres-college-admission-journey/
What a refreshing change to hear a success story like this. So much emphasis is put on attaining a high score these days that it makes those who are not natural test takers feel inferior. It sounds like the young man in the article made the absolute best of his college years and is now on his way to a great career.
Good article.
I love this because if you hang around CC enough you’d swear no one must get an “average” ACT. Yet I bet CC only represents about the top 10% of all students. It’s easy to forget the other 90% have many who still go to college and do just fine.
Glad this article is highlighted. More young people need to read it!
The article is great but it suffers to me from this. The statement by the student ( which seems to reflect a theme of the article): “There is no way the average score is 21 but everyone in my high school claimed to get a 29!”
Yes there IS a way that this is true. It’s true at the high school my kids attended. The “ national average” and the average at a school with a higher SES have little in commmon. That’s the facts folks.
As the student said, there is a college for everyone.
How does the opinion of a 23-year-old who’s relaying his own story hurt the article? The theme is that students with average scores go on to excellent schools and have solid careers. That’s certainly true. I don’t understand how it helps those students to have it pointed out to them yet again that students from wealthier families tend to have higher scores. I’m sure they know. The idea of the article is to reduce test anxiety, not add to it.
“How does the opinion of a 23-year-old who’s relaying his own story hurt the article? The theme is that students with average scores go on to excellent schools and have solid careers. That’s certainly true. I don’t understand how it helps those students to have it pointed out to them yet again that students from wealthier families tend to have higher scores. I’m sure they know. The idea of the article is to reduce test anxiety, not add to it.”
I think it was important to point out that this is true ( that they can still get into a great college) for students who are well BELOW average at THEIR school. This fact would do more to allay test anxiety for the kids I know.
thank you so much for this one
How about a story for a student who did not even take SAT or ACT, ME, yours truly.
40 years ago, I barely graduated from high school and went to the military afterwards. Out of the military, I was admitted by a college in NY, they did not even looked at my transcript. I grew up and matured in the military and realized this is my last shot. I worked hard and graduated in three years with flying color. Out of College, I was hired by a fortune 50 company and had a pretty good professional life. I should kick myself not accepting an offer from a Wall Street firm which I worked part time for a year.
Now I am retired with pretty good real estate based investments which pays good rent and I do not have to rely on SS to make my living.
I can recall that in my class, my college had an experimental program. They granted some full ride scholarships to a bunch of students from impoverished community. One of the recipient was my roommate in the dorm. But that did not work out, by end of first year most of the students in the program were gone. I believe only one or two of them actually graduated.
I guess late bloomers do happen.