<p>“You can’t be that square in your views.”</p>
<p>lol, im not sure why I laughed at that.</p>
<p>Anyway, Cracking the ACT has a significantly better English section than 1296, so do that. I strongly recommend.</p>
<p>You have a very narrow view of what people need to accomplish. I’m very happy for you that you want to go to Harvard ( it’s either you, or a different frosh who wants to go there) but you need to realize that for a lot of people who want a different college experience, Harvard doesn’t fit them.</p>
<p>And I will try Cracking the ACT. Thank you.</p>
<p>Well, as far as I know, there isn’t another frosh on this board besides early_college, and I’m pretty sure he isn’t planning on it…so I don’t know where you would have gotten Harvard from. My thread might have just given you that vibe.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know I’m kind of narrow. It’s just that when you read literally hundreds ivy league apps, you start to develop a bad case of only giving people ivy advice.</p>
<p>It’s chill dude. That’s what CC is: a bunch of overachievers. Haha. And my views are set on an ivy ( Penn) and it’s the hardest one to get into so I do need an insane score. </p>
<p>Oh. and about the hardest one, I mean the huntsman program. Just for clarification.</p>
<p>yeah, I was gonna say. Lol</p>
<p>Haha yeah for sure. Do you think I have a chance at getting a 34?</p>
<p>Yeah, with a pretty good amount of work.</p>
<p>I’d say like 34 tops</p>
<p>Uh, I find that studying some of the SAT writing part can also help with the ACT rules too. I don’t know why, but I feel some of the ACT books leave out important english rules because it won’t be on the test. But, some rules that aren’t described are on the test and the SAT seems to have more documentation on that (like look up Sparknotes SAT writing, it has a lot more help). And just knowing more rules helps a lot imo. You don’t have to be good at the SAT writing, but just making sure you can identify a lot of grammatical errors is a plus.</p>
<p>I’m an ACT person so I don’t like wasting ACT tests if I can help it, so I just take SAT tests and learn all of the ACT rules too.</p>
<p>^ True, but if you have no intention of taking the SAT, I advise not doing this since ACT English is really easy even without knowing technical jargon; it would just be a waste of time unless you wanted to be ultra prepared</p>
<p>By the way, The Princeton Review’s book is really hard.</p>
<p>^only more you get to learn chap ;)</p>
<p>Oh if anything, I remember getting like around 26-27 on the science practice test back in the Real ACT book back in 2007 and I got a 23-24 on the real thing, so just keep in mind that your scores might be lower on the real test. Similar results with some other ACT book back then. I did worse on all sections on the practice tests than the real thing with the exception of the math part. Of tests I took only one of the tests was about the same as my practice tests. The rest were lower.</p>
<p>I dunno about the Princeton Review one. I’ll tell you how much my score improves from a 32 in October.</p>
<p>^yeah, they just had to give us the three easiest administrations.</p>
<p>and harder and ACT scores would rise even more, too high for consistency with college freshman grades.</p>
<p>Okay. Well the Princeton Review is really, really hard for me. I hope this is really good for me though. It’d be nice to actually learn the English language. haha</p>
<p>yeah i’m pretty sure that not knowing English very well could totally make the English a lot harder.</p>
<p>Well it does. Haha. When the PR splits the English in thirds, I can easily do the second two, but the first one is really hard. I just need to keep working at it I guess.</p>
<p>any recommendations for how I can get better?</p>
<p>^Read up every rule on sparknotes.</p>
<p>^yeah, sparksnotes is also good (second opinion ;))</p>
<p>Just a little update: I took a test in PR today, and got a 30. I missed 6 or 7. Two day, two points. Not bad.</p>
<p>on English, you mean?</p>
<p>If so, keep going. If a stupid little freshman can get a 32 on English, you can too.</p>