<p>How much of a difference is there in college admissions between a 34 and a 36? If I scored a 34 would there be any reason to retake the ACT besides to get my name in the newspaper?</p>
<p>The difference is two. =) </p>
<p>It depends on how great the rest of your transcript is and where you want to apply.</p>
<p>It won't make much of a difference other than brag rights, or if you have no EC's, it will make you look like a robot. If you want brag rights, go for it.</p>
<p>no difference. It would NEVER EVER EVER be the deciding factor between two applications.</p>
<p>plus colleges like to see people who arent perfect. keep your 34 and good luck!</p>
<p>I used to think it wasn't a difference, but it is even though colleges don't want to admit it. 25% of harvard and princeton's students scored 35 or 36 on their ACT. Colleges reject only half of their perfect scorers. You could say half!? thats actually pretty good considering everyone else is going to be like 8% this year</p>
<p>1mx, where did you see that stat about 25% scored a 35 or 36? I don't believe it.</p>
<p>I think 1MX is referring to the 75th percentile score for top schools being reported as 34. But that just means that 25% scored 34 or above; not that 25% scored above 34. Consider: about 1,206,000 ACT tests were taken in 2006. There were about 2,000 scores of 35 or 36, and about 4,000 scores of 34. The other 1.2 million scores were lower than 34. So a report that the 75th percentile at a highly selective school would be somewhere in the 34 range isn't too surprising, but I don't think that it means that fully 25% of the students had 35 or 36.</p>
<p>kluge is right on</p>
<p>what's the difference between 2260 and 2400? that's the difference</p>