<p>These are the schools I'm thinking of:</p>
<p>Stanford
Yale
Amherst
Williams
Dartmouth
UPenn
MIT
Swarthmore
CalTech
Ponoma
U of Chicago</p>
<p>I'm in the top 1% of my class and have decent ECs and community service.</p>
<p>Is a 33 composite good enough...? This is the third time I've taken it and got 32 on both others.</p>
<p>We're in the same boat then in terms of ACT, ECs, and class rank. I think a 33 should be fine since the median for most is like a 29-33 or so. I'm making Penn my first choice so hopefully that goes well, and I wish you the best of luck as well.</p>
<p>Same here...just got a 33, but my mom wants me to retake. I don't think she gets that 33 is good as anything, BUT I'm going to retake anyway since I have 1 more free one from my school. :D</p>
<p>I made a 34 and am going to apply to the same schools you mentioned. Due to the fact that 32+ is in the 99th percentile, I don't think that another point or two really matter very much, I know I'm not going to retest...</p>
<p>A 33 makes you comfortably mid-range at Yale, Penn, and MIT, and at the upper end of the middle 50% for Stanford, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Chicago, and Pomona. (For that matter, you're pretty well-off with a 32 as well.) Unless you need your ACT score to compensate for some other weakness - which it doesn't seem like you do - then you should be absolutely fine.</p>
<p>i got a 33 too. last time i got a 32.
applying penn ed (or duke). none of those schools superscore act, right? i know a few colleges do though...</p>
<p>if you sat scores are really high, then i don't think you have to retake it.</p>
<p>Retake it if you want. I took it my first time and got a 33. I just retook it and got a 36, so it helped.</p>
<p>actually, i heard penn is one of the few that do superscore. if that was the case, i would have a 35 instead of my lowly 32.</p>
<p>if penn really does superscore, then i'll definitely take it a second time.</p>
<p>33 is good enough for any college in the country</p>
<p>golfer_08, are you sure that upenn superscores? i went on their site and no where does it say that it allows superscores for act.</p>
<p>i know that Penn superscores for the SAT, but i'm pretty srue that no college superscores for the ACT based on teh fact that its just too complicated (obviously this includes Penn)</p>