<p>Most kids at my school don’t even know what it is out of. Like I got a 30.25 cold in February, (taking it in september), and everyone was like “Dude isn’t that like perfect?” or “Dude are you going to like Harvard or something?”. </p>
<p>That being said, the average is probably around 22-23. a 26-27 is good. 30+ is insanely good. I say 30+ because I got the same praise as a kid who got a 35, twice.</p>
<p>34 or higher.</p>
<p>It is rare for students to score above 32 at my school.</p>
<p>^ same.</p>
<p>Most score around 20-22. “Good” is 23-27. “Amazing” is 28-32. “Shocking” is anything above that.</p>
<p>The Avg at my school is 26+, most kids get at my school get around 28. Some students at my school get gr8 scores, well above 30. For me, I got a score at around the avg when i first took it so im fairly well.</p>
<p>I don’t believe I’ve ever talked to a student who got a perfect 36.</p>
<p>Since I come from the average public, honestly a 25+ is great. And this year, I think that there was only 1 person who scored a 30. So yeah. It’s very easy to overachieve given the circumstances.</p>
<p>^ How many students attend your school?</p>
<p>The average for my school is around a 29.</p>
<p>When I took the ACT for the first time as a soph, I got a 33. I’m now a junior, and when I took it I was coughing my lungs out and had a high fever… I managed to get a 30. I remember I was crying and whining when I got my score and my dad was upset that my score “dropped so much”… I went back to my selective enrollment school the next day, and although a handful of kids were getting 35s, a great many were also scoring 22-25. Personally, I’d say a 25+ is good.</p>
<p>… As for 36s, one of my best friends got a 36. 
I’m happy for her, she’s by far the smartest and nicest person I’ve ever met and really well-rounded. The only other person I’ve met that got a 36 is brilliant, but demonstrates no leadership, no extracurriculars, no interests… And to be blunt, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her give an act of kindness to another living thing. She’s a senior this year, and got rejected from Harvard, Yale, and MIT. [Something to keep in mind?]</p>
<p>Any number past and including 30 is good at our school</p>
<p>People at my school think a 29 is a fantastic score, but of course these are all the students who go to in-state schools/schools where their friends are going. I’m not saying 29 is bad, people have so much more potential than that.</p>
<p>It depends on who you’re talking to. Among my dumb/fun friends, a 29 is considered brilliant. I told one of them that I was shooting for a 32 last weekend and he was like, “OMG UR SOOO SMARTZ”. With my smarter/boring friends, it’s 32+ or no respect. But hey, these kids think that anything below a 4.0 gpa is bad too.</p>
<p>I’m from a pretty large public school. Some people would consider a 30 great, but I know at least two people who got 36 perfects. In most of my classes, 32-35 is considered normal, even though our school average is ~23</p>
<p>I go to a large, good and public school in the Midwest. We have like 10 35’s and 2 (finger’s crossed for me) 36’s. Our average is 24.6 or something. </p>
<p>Good: 30+
Great 34+</p>
<p>I go to a tiny public rural school in WI (about 550). Our average is about a 23.8 & the top 20-25 students in grade average about a 29-31. The highest ever was 35 (she got into MIT so we’re doing something right) two years ago. I’m satisfied because for such a small school, we do have great teachers if you take AP classes.</p>
<p>Bad: 15-
Average: 17
Good: 20-25
Great: 26-30
Excellent: 30-32
WOW: 32-35</p>
<p>Average, about a 20
Good, 24/25
Great, 26/27+</p>
<p>Usually only one or two kids each year break a 30.</p>
<p>Tigerb, only 1 or 2 kids breaks 30 in your school?! That’s really bad… What’s your school like? My grade has about 150 kids in it and I bet at least 10 kids get over 30, it would be more but more people take the SAT than the ACT.</p>
<p>25 probably.</p>
<p>The expectations in my school are low–because the students perform low. Teachers and administrators aim for a 19, as that is the cut off for instate tuition. There is no more of a reason for students to score above this, as the majority either go onto a community college or to no college at all. My class has about 240 students.</p>