<p>I have a question, what is considered to be a "good" score on the ACT. Please do not respond if you are just going to say: "good" means different things for different people". I understand that, I would like this from the perspective of a kid looking into the top 75 or 50 colleges (LAC or University) in the country. If you could maybe put up a range of ACT scores and for what type of school they would be competitive for in the admissions process (maybe give some examples of schools in those ranges as well). For example:
26-28: (colleges)
29-31 ("")
32-34 ("")
35-36 ("")
ect.
Whatever ranges you think are appropriate (I know really nothing about the ACT and would like a feel for where my score stands, so make the cutoffs at what are considered to be good natural cutoff points, like on the SAT a 1400 is a cutoff point (for instance people are always saying that you need a 1400 atleast to be considered at ivies ect)). I realize that somebody could get into any school with any ACT score (within reason) and that there are many other factors in the admission process, but now is the time to make generilizations...thanks.</p>
<p>A 32-36 is about the best you can do for college admissions. After that, your other stats and EC's take over. You probably need a 32 or higher for Ivies. CollegeBoard has info pages about each college with this information on it. I'll post a few examples for the 25th-75th percentile scores:</p>
<p>Harvard 31-34
Princeton 30-34
Brown 27-33
Cornell 28-32
Stanford 28-33
Duke 29-34
Northwestern 29-33
Univ. Chicago 28-33
Univ. Michigan 27-31
Amherst College 28-33
UC San Diego 23-29
Georgia Tech 26-30</p>
<p>That's as many as I want to find information for, so I hope that helps. :)</p>
<p>I should also add that the 1400 (or maybe now the 2100) is not a magical number, but rather a benchmark for the top top schools. I am a non-hooked applicant (no legacy, minority representation, or supreme athletic skills), I did not have a 2100, just barely made it past a 1400, and I got into a top 10 University, as per US News.</p>
<p>I don't know much about college admissions, but from what I've seen, I can pretty much conclude that no college sees test scores as the be-all and end-all (if that were the case, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton would be loading up on 2400's and 36's).</p>