ACT Help, 22 to 30? Possible?

Test Preparation
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I just hate when colleges say “We don’t find that prep helps” seriously, on some of top tier colleges’s websites, it says that. IT DOES HELP. Especially for people that aren’t good test takers. so PREP PREP PREP.

Also, regarding my friend, she does have over a 4.0 at one of the hardest schools in the state, so she’s smart, but she does contribute a lot of her ACT success to prep work.

S/O to the schools that realize for a lot of applicants, test scores don’t always reveal a student’s true potential.

I was actually talking to the asst director of admissions from a pretty reputable school that uses the policy that you don’t have to send in standardized scores b/c they said they realized after speaking to their students and looking at study after study that the tests just weren’t an accurate representation of their abilities.

I understand needing them b/c for example, as a student at an extremely rigorous college prep school (where students from schools like Rice and ivies literally come back and say it made colleges EASY), it’s annoying to compare a 4.0 from our school to the the 4.0 down the street at a super easy public school (not that all public schools are easy), but I just think sometimes they should have less weight. I think colleges should get to know schools better to get an idea of what this GPA means at XYZ school. Idk, it’s a complicated situation and now I’m going on a completely unrelated rant lol

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Just to put in a real life example: My child had a composite of 32 on his first ACT, with one section pulling down all the rest. He did 3 practice tests and studied with a book from Amazon and raised that one section by 10 points, resulting in a 34 composite on that second test. So it’s possible to raise your score, but a 8 or 10-point composite raise would be really difficult. Perhaps more realistic to think in terms of sections and a 2-4 point composite increase.