<p>My best ACT score is a 33. Assuming all other parts of my application are quite strong (SAT IIs, GPA, essays, recs, etc.), is that score sufficient for the following schools?</p>
<p>Yale
Stanford
Dartmouth
Penn
Pomona
Williams
Amherst
CalTech
UChicago
(this list does not include safeties)</p>
<p>Your score is high enough that it won't put you out of consideration for any of the schools you've listed. However, colleges choose applicants based on a LOT more than a score, and it's going to take a lot of achievement on your part-- achievement that isn't related to filling in holes completely on an answer sheet-- to gain admission to any of these schools, which would be considered reaches even for the 36.</p>
<p>Your 33 is high enough!</p>
<p>your score is fine.</p>
<p>What is it they say is the target act to get you above the hump? I think it's a 32 (for the top schools that is), so if you don't get accepted, it won't be because of your test scores.</p>