<p>How good is a score of 32 on the ACT?</p>
<p>pretty darned</p>
<p>98 or 99th percentile</p>
<p>Awesome. At some schools, it could translate into $$$ in merit aid (if you have a decent GPA as well).</p>
<p>Good enough to tell my D with that score that she could consider herself “one and done.”</p>
<p>Depends on where she wants to go, but yes, I’d certainly be celebrating the one and done!</p>
<p>Ditto on the one and done.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/two.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/two.pdf</a></p>
<p>and if you do NOT have a top GPA but a 32- will you still get some merit $$$ for the 32?</p>
<p>Depends upon where you want to go to school. For most top 20 schools that score, while quite good, will place you in the middle 50% of scores ie no merit $$$</p>
<p>It would be enough to make me whoop and hollar and bake the recipient a cake…though I am no baker 
Congrats!</p>
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<p>It depends. Google “ACT 32 scholarship” to see what’s out there. Here is one example: [Out-of-State</a> Scholarships - Undergraduate Scholarships - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html]Out-of-State”>http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html)</p>
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<p>thanks- I am from Alabama and know about that one- but this one doesn’t want to go to a BIG school which Alabama now has 30,000 students</p>
<p>Hi my name is motherofthree and I am/was am a grade and test grubber when young. I am officially in the 12 step program for people who are working on being non-perfectionists one day at a time. Bottom line, it is an excellent ACT score. I went through a battery of tests at a job when I was in my 30s. We got the results and some high flaluting therapist from a state far far away was brought in to “talk” to all of us about our scores. I was having a cow because I didn’t score perfection on the critical thinking portion. He basically told me I was nuts and anything in the top 10% was better than 90% of the people walking up and down business halls all across the nation and to get some perspective. OP if there is desire to take it again to get perfection, you have my blessing. The “nice” thing about ACTs is for the most part you only need to report your best test take and no others before or after. But do put this score in national context…it’s a darn good score.</p>
<p>*and if you do NOT have a top GPA but a 32- will you still get some merit $$$ for the 32? *</p>
<p>the way it works is this…</p>
<p>There’s a large pool of students with high GPAs. </p>
<p>There’s a good sized pool of kids with high test scores. </p>
<p>There is a smaller pool of kids that have both - high GPA and high test scores…the scholarships tend to go to those kids.</p>
<p>Alabama now has 30,000 students</p>
<p>BTW…Bama is a good sized school, but it has 23,000 undergrads.</p>
<p>It really depends on the schools you are aiming to attend. If you are like most CCer’s and want to attend an Ivy or Ivy caliber I would advise you to perhaps retake it for higher. 34+ will look better and make you more competitive, although that is not to say that your score is not great. And congratulations!</p>
<p>Depends on how you’ve always viewed your intelligence. If you’ve always viewed yourself as pretty smart but not a genius, good job. If you’ve always viewed yourself as a genius, then either you’re wrong or you did a terrible job. </p>
<p>In general I’d say a 32 is a very good score, but I’ve met someone who retook a 34, and multiple people who retook a 33, and someone who would have retaken a 35, but decided he just wanted to go to Michigan so didn’t bother. It depends on who you’re trying to compete with. If you’re trying to go to Harvard, you did poorly. If you’re trying to go to the University of the state you live in, you did quite well (or maybe unspeakably well, depending on what state you live in).</p>
<p>I guess I’m assuming you got a 32, which you didn’t actually say.</p>
<p>^^^Um ignore him. I only got like 2 points higher than you and still did fine when it came to college admissions.</p>
<p>^Ignore him because a 32 does not equal a 34. He acknowledges this and yet still argues as it is. </p>
<p>There’s a big difference between a 32 and a 34. Only 28% of people who got a 32 or above got a 34 or above. The difference between a 32 and 34 is about the same as the difference between a 22 and a 28.</p>
<p>I doubt that. Yeah a 32 does not equal a 34, but a 34 is not an amazing score and I don’t think that the gap is as large as you imply. The 25-75 percentile range for my school is 30-34, so there have to be 32 scorers getting accepted. I was refuting the emphasis that you placed on the score, not the fact that they are different.</p>