<p>If u got a 35.25 and ur annoyed vent here</p>
<p>lots of people would kill for that 35</p>
<p>Yeah and i would kill to not have made a dumb mistake for a 36</p>
<p>I made a 34.75, and I made the same composite as you. U mad Bruh</p>
<p>Just retake it. I had two flat 35s, and I retook it in September for a 36 (35.5) :)</p>
<p>Yes, I feel you! I also got a 35.25 and even though I know it’s a good score I still wish I got that one extra point to boost me up to a 36. I’m not exactly upset, but very very frustrated. </p>
<p>A 35 is nothing to vent about. </p>
<p>Yeah the fact that this thread exits makes me shake my head so hard. Whether you get a 35 or 36 makes absolutely no difference to any college whether it is a state school or HYP. Focus on other parts of your applications instead of complaining about a 35.</p>
<p>@DAIMYO Ugh why are you such an overachiever? :/</p>
<p>@reichtangle No ones complaining about a 35 were complaining about being so close to a 36 sorry we wanna do the absolute best we can :)</p>
<p>@AnotherPSEOKid Lol ur so bitter please chill. I didnt ask for a paragraph analysis ill complain about what i want to complain about</p>
<p>Overachieving is the attitude this generation needs more than anything else due to overabundance of complacency. But to your score, OP, if a college rejects you, it won’t be because of your ACT score. </p>
<p>@AnotherPSEOKid Actually you are wrong based upon correlation between ACT score and admission rates.
See here
<a href=“College Admission: Facts, Opinions, and Myths - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1690095-college-admission-facts-opinions-and-myths-p1.html</a></p>
<p>There is obviously a slight increase from 35-36
But when they say something like “a 123% drop from 36 to 33-35” that’s not the drop from 36 to 35, that’s the drop from 36 to the average of that section, and the average change of acceptance rate based on score gets dramatically more significant the lower the score, so it’s probably more like “36 to 35 drops 25%, while 36-34 drops 100% while 36-33 drops 300%” so the drop from 36 to 33-35 is about 140% but it isn’t like admissions officers think “oh (s)he got a 35 instead of a 36, better lump them with the 33s” just like they won’t see a 33 to be as good as a 35, especially since the difference between a 35 and 36 can be 2 or 3 questions while the drop from a 36 to a 33 can be more like 10-12 questions. Sorry if any of my numbers off but I’m just trying to make people understand that those statistics can appear misleading.
I agree (or at least hope, since I am part of the 35 group) that colleges will not make their decision to reject(or accept!) my application based on my lack-of-36, and that they’ll more see it as “okay his tests match up with everything else.”</p>
<p>Dylan you are trying to rationalize the data rather than see the data correlation for what it is. You might be correct as to the data distribution if broken down by individual ACT scores but you might also be incorrect because the data is not broken down by individual scores. We don’t know.</p>
<p>What we do know is that those students who apply with a perfect ACT get admitted at twice the rate as those with 32-35 ACT scores. Given this data, which group would you like to be in?</p>
<p>BTW if you are going to input your idea of what the distribution might be, you might want to use the knowledge that the lower the scores go the more the number of students have that score. There were only about a 1000 students with a perfect ACT last year but over 22000 with ACT of 32. The higher the score, the less the number of students who receive those scores. So your distribution estimates seem quite off to obtain your averages.</p>
<p>Seriously, at the end of the day, is there any difference between a 32-36? Anyone who scores in that range is most likely reasonably intelligent anyways, capable of doing just fine in the upper schools. In fact, I’d be willing to include 28-31 in on that, too. It’s just that the higher scorers answered a minimal amount of questions correctly that the others did not. 30+ is the last stratum I would draw if I, God have mercy on my soul, were in charge of college admissions.</p>
<p>I went 35.25, 35.0, 36.0. But in all reality, as far as college admissions is concerned, there really is no difference between a 35 and a 36</p>
<p>What about between 34 and 35? I got 34.25 lol 
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<p>@mnrepresent </p>