<p>colleges, esp in the east coast
seem to not really have a good median ACT score, if you know what i mean.</p>
<p>for the SAT it seems like you need to have like a 2300 to be considered high scoring, but what about the ACT?</p>
<p>if you consider 2300 as high for the SAT then a 34 is high for the ACT</p>
<p>You've been hanging around CC too much.</p>
<p>In the real world, anything above about 18-1900 is good on the SAT. Anything above about 28-29 is good on the ACT. Don't let these elitest jerks make you feel like an idiot (not to generalize, there are a lot of great people here, but one or two always pop up and are like OMG YOU GOT A 2000 YOU'RE GOING TO CITY COLLEGE).</p>
<p>National average for the ACT is 21, anything above that is "above average".</p>
<p>HisGraceFillsMe, the OP seems to consider 2300 to be his definition of a high score on the SAT. Using that as a benchmark, I agree that a 34 is the corresponding score on the ACT. Everyone has different standards... 1900 or 29 is good enough for some but not for everyone. The question is impossible to answer unless you specify what schools you are looking at, or unless you give a definition of 'good', which the OP did when he said '2300 SAT'.</p>
<p>Also, I'd argue that Harvard, Princeton, and Yale are certainly part of the 'real world', and a 1800 is not a good score at these schools, not by a long shot. Of course, plenty of people are not interested in HYP.</p>
<p>imo a "good" score would be in the top 5-10%... so around a 28 is good in comparison to all test takers.</p>
<p>I'd lay it out like this, it's really all a matter of percentiles and what you consider a good percentile, but this is a general layout I think most people would agree with.</p>
<p>21 - Average
24 - Decent
27 - Good
29 - Great
31 - Excellent
32+ - top 1% of all test takers / superior</p>
<p>I would say :</p>
<p>21 - Average
24 - Decent
26 - Good
29 - Great
31 - Excellent
32+ - Superior</p>
<p>There seems to be a fine line between those who score 25 and 27, thus I think 26 is the middle-ground, "Good".</p>
<p>thus, with a 33, i'm okay?</p>
<p>It depends on your standards. But a 20-22 should be good enough to get you into most state universitys. Remember, most schools aren't competitive!</p>
<p>With the great number of students applying to college in the next couple of years I would say most schools are competitive.</p>
<p>33 won't get you rejected anywhere on its own.</p>
<p>would a 31 at Duke get rejected on its own?</p>
<p>You can't get into any of top school with standardized test scores alone - you have to be the complete package.</p>
<p>Right...but you can get rejected from a standardized test score alone...</p>
<p>That being said, where will a 31 ACT get me rejected from?</p>
<p>Nowhere. But if you're applying somewhere whose applicants are regularly 34+, you'll need to impress them some other way.</p>
<p>Where are applicants regularly 34+ other than HYPSM?</p>
<p>Duke's 25//75 is 29-34...so I'm not sure what an ACT score of 31 means in that regard.</p>
<p>I hate the college process! I can't wait until this is all over.</p>
<p>How appropriate! My 100th post on CC!</p>
<p>Around 60 pecent of Duke freshmen scored above 29, so your 31 is definitely sufficient. As for other top schools, I have no idea.</p>
<p>Phew. I'm in the safe zone.</p>