A few days ago
I know some kid that said he got a 36 on the ACT, he decided to go to MU, do you think he’s full of it?
according to the statistics on ACT’s website 1 in 5,500 get a 36, 2.1 million scores were administered last year, therefore on approx. 381 students in the world that took the ACT got a 36. Harvard accepts around 3,000 freshmen every year, and all of the Ivy League schools combined accept probably around 15,000 students each year, if ONLY 381 kids get a 36 I’m pretty sure every ivy league university would be begging for them… why go to a public university that any redneck from Missouri can get into? I don’t think its probable, what do you think?
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I got a 35, and I’m going to OU. A guy in my grade got a 36, and is going to a state school on a football scholarship (if I recall). The more prestigious universities don’t do as many merit-based scholarships, anyway, so it’s not really true that they’d be “begging” for the kids who get 36s.
So, the kid you know could be full of it. Or not. Lol, ask him to prove it!
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A few days ago
It could be believable. Contrary to what you might think, Harvard rejects about half of the people who get perfect scores on the SAT, and it is probably the same way with the ACT. Also, that kid might not have had enough money to pay for an Ivy League education (and believe me, the Ivy League won’t give out scholarships to people just because they score very well on standardized tests). Maybe he got scholarship money at the state school.
If you know him well enough, then you will know if he seems intelligent enough to maybe have gotten a 36. If he was just a typical student who was of typical intelligence, you can bet he didn’t get a 36.
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I could see cost as a concern and as a reason to pick a state school. But there are plenty of elite schools that do offer great merit scholarships and financial aid. I think a perfect scorerer would have gotten great merit based packages if he looked around as I know quite a few high scorers who got full rides at relatively prestigious 2nd tier schools. I still wouldn’t say that Ivies would be begging for them because there are kids with perfect SATs and ACTs who get rejected from them each year.
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I know of plenty of students who had really high SAT scores but settled for a state school because it was cheap. Money does talk!
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It’s really all up to him. He might have family and friends and special classes that are just right for him, that are exactly to what he wants to focus on.
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