<p>32.</p>
<p>Is that good enough for highly competitive schools?</p>
<p>It’s subpar for the most selective schools, but it certainly won’t eliminate you from consideration. It’s good for the vast majority of other colleges, though.</p>
<p>Can you be more specific which schools you’re looking at?
32 is certainly not bad, but as silverturtle said, subpar for HYPS and such.</p>
<p>I’d def. try to up in. My good friend got into Cornell Engineering off a 32 ACT, but English is her 3rd language, so the English/Reading parts dragged her score down a bit</p>
<p>Not looking for HPYS- highest reach is probably Dartmouth. </p>
<p>I’m the opposite as your friend, math kills me. I got a 35 on English. </p>
<p>Middlebury, Colgate, W & L, other high caliber LAC schools (minus Williams and Amherst)</p>
<p>What do we think?</p>
<p>If you don’t think that it will take enormous effort to raise it to 34+, I recommend doing so. Otherwise, you’re still in decent shape with that score.</p>
<p>32 is a good score, but not even a 36 is the silver bullet.</p>
<p>32 is subpar for HYPS? I beg to differ. 32 is a strong, respectable score. I think that would really push a person over the top for HYPS is 4s and 5s on AP exams, a very strong GPA, great essays. A 32 puts you in - what is it - the 99th percentile? If YOU think that a 34 over a 32 will get you in, then try one more time. but honestly, i think that the amount of people getting 34s and 32s are pretty similar.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m not concerned with HYPS anyways. Simply the schools I stated. Thank you for you input. Anyone else, feel free to contribute thoughts/advice!</p>
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<p>You are statistically incorrect.</p>
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<p>97.2nd percentile.</p>
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<p>It certainly could, consistent with the idea that higher scores yield higher chances.</p>
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<p>I don’t know what relevance your comment has, but it is incorrect nonetheless. 146% more people get 32 than get 34.</p>
<p>ACTstudent.org has 32 composite as 99 percentile silverturtle… where are you getting 97.2?</p>
<p>99 is the favorably rounded average from the last several years. 97.2 is the percentile from 2009, which is the latest year for which there are data. You can find those data [url=<a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/National2009.pdf]here[/url”>http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/National2009.pdf]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>But don’t take that the wrong way. The 97.2 percentile is very high, and you’re in good shape for Colgate which has a 31 average ACT.</p>
<p>^ Yes, I agree. I was merely diverging from the main topic in order to engage pomona2015’s misinformation.</p>
<p>Of course your score is good enough.
Why would you even ask something like this
when the answer is obvious?</p>
<p>I love the way you speak silverturtle</p>