<p>A friend of mine has a D whose scores were lopsided like your daughter’s. She had a lower GPA (barely above 3.0, mostly due to low math and science grades) and a lower ACT composite score - low 20’s - with 16 in math, a fairly low science score that I don’t recall, 30 in Reading, 29 in English and a near perfect score on the writing part. She was told by several colleges that they put a lot of weight on the Reading score in such a situation, because there’s a lot of reading and writing in college and a high score on the Reading portion indicates that the student can likely do the work. This girl wasn’t going into a math related field, so I think a lot of schools could see their way clear to overlook the low math score. She was applying to mostly small LACs, and got into almost all of the schools she applied to, even though her composite ACT was below the middle 50% for most of them. Several of the schools where she was accepted commented on the strength of her essay. She ended up at a CTCL school, with merit money. She’s a sophomore now and has earned mostly A’s, although she hasn’t taken the two required math courses yet and is not looking forward to that.</p>