<p>I base that on my younger son's experience. He also got a 27 as a seventh grader. He took it again last June just after he finished 8th grade and got a 32. (Like you, the math and science, much of which he had not taken yet, held him back. 35s on everything else.) So if you are next taking it as a high school freshman (or especially, at the end of your freshman year) I would expect a similar result. (And by the way, the only studying he did was that I was able to convince him to look at a practice test in a prep book his older brother had, and the ACT website the night before, for some practice questions. Apparently at 14 he didn't find preparing for a college test as interesting as playing video games. Go figure! Anyway, if it's important to you, you can outdo that "preparation" very easily, I imagine.) </p>
<p>So what does this mean? Just that you are very bright, and that you have that part of the college entrance thing well in hand. But if it's important to you that you have a chance to get admitted to highly selective colleges here's my advice: let the aptitude tests take care of themselves and tend to your knitting in high school. My older son got an ACT score much higher than the younger, and similar SAT scores -- but his GPA is floating around a 3.3. And that's what most colleges look at first. (And by the way, I'm not saying it should be important to you. A lot of this stuff about Ivy League and similar schools is just hysteria driven by parental or self-pressure; those colleges don't necessarily educate any better, if as well, as many less prestigious schools.)</p>
<p>As for the younger son, I expect we'll have him try the SAT this year instead of the ACT again.</p>