The answer is that it really depends. A 32 on the ACT is an excellent score for a freshman. Keep in mind that when you are applying to colleges, you want to be at or above the 50%tile score of accepted students to have a decent chance to getting into the college of your choice. Ideally, you want your ACT score to be at the 75%tile of accepted students.Why do percentiles matter?If your score is at the 50%tile of accepted students, that means that 50% of accepted students had a lower score than you, and the other 50% of accepted students had a higher score than you. You increase your odds of acceptance when you are at the 75%tile of accepted students, meaning 25% of accepted students had a higher score than you, and the remaining 75% of accepted students had a lower score than you.Take a look at the 25%tile and 75%tile scores of some colleges that you might want to apply to. Search “(College/University name) Student Profile” on Google and you will find stats (Test Scores, GPA (for some), etc.) of the College/University’s accepted students.So should you wait?Again, the answer ultimately depends on which colleges you want to apply to. You didn’t give your section scores, so there are two cases.If you are scoring 31–33 in ALL of your sections, then you probably have a good enough of a foundation to take the test as a freshman. Brush up on some unfamiliar topics/concepts/ideas/skills, try to eliminate your mistakes, and take the ACT in the spring of your freshman year. If you can raise even one point on all of your sections, your composite score will go up by one point. That’s huge!If you are scoring less than 31 in any of your sections, I would wait. Your high school courses will definitely prepare you for the ACT, and it definitely wouldn’t hurt to wait. I got a 32 on the ACT in my sophomore year and I raised it to a 34 in my junior year, so obviously, waiting was a good idea for me.Regardless of whether or not you plan to wait, make sure you are exploring everything that high school has to offer you. Explore the organizations on campus, volunteer, find out what you might like to pursue in college, make new friends, and be nice to your teachers. Most importantly, enjoy being a teenager! These years only come by once in your life, and it would be a shame if you burned out during your freshman or sophomore year.If you want some QUALITY practice tests, look here: CrackACTGood luck!
A lot.I live alone in University in a completely different culture and country (UK) compared to living in a joint family in India in high school.I have become more independent, decisive, responsible and self dependent.I am learning how to do stuff I never could have never learnt living with my family such as cooking, washing / ironing / folding clothes, cleaning my room and toilet.I walk / run (when late for lectures ) an average of 8 km everyday. Sometimes 12–13 km on busy days and sometimes 4–5 km on weekends and lazy days. This is absolutely impossible in Delhi, where I used to travel everyday by car. I could stay fit, without going to the gym in London.I am learning that life is not fair. Some people have it easier, and others have it harder.I am learning about life from experiences of people from all over the world. Different characters, personalities of people from different parts of the globe. This is probably the best part of being at a university of this stature.I have failed doing things, made loads of mistakes and had to deal with it myself majorly. I have understood and accepted that most people don't care about you as much as you think they do. It's only your family and a handful of friends that actually care.I am learning how to deal with people, with respect, politeness while still being assertive and confident.Books are the not the best way to learn about life. I am trying new stuff, meeting new people and going different places as much as I can to make as much of university life as possible and learn as much as I can.I have become more confident when interacting with people.I try to listen more and speak less.I am learning the value of money. Living in an expensive city, it's important to watch the expenses.Find me here: Karmanya Singh
If you take honors classes your junior and senior year (classes that are graded on a 5.0 scale), then you could graduate with a 4.0. Since your composite GPA right now is a 3.75, if you were to have a 4.25 average for the next two years (or a 4.2 one year and a 4.3 the other or similar), you could graduate with a weighted 4.0. However, if your GPA is unweighted even with honors, you could not graduate with a 4.0 because your honors classes would still be on a 4.0 scale. This would be very hard to do as well, especially because junior and senior year are harder than freshman and sophomore year in most cases and you have many more responsibilities junior and senior year (the ACT or SAT if you’re in America, looking at/visiting/applying to colleges, applying to scholarships, etc) as well as a harder class load. With hard work and a weighted GPA, it would be possible. Colleges also love it when grades go up through high school like yours have thus far; it shows that you are working on becoming a better student by your senior year than you were as a freshman. Good luck!
That’s extremely well! That roughly translates to a ~2250/2400 on the old SAT.I don’t see a need for you to take it again, but it’s up to you if you think you can perform higher.It ultimately depends on where you plan to go for college. Your gpa, and extracurriculars play a huge factor in your admissions.Try doing some research on your colleges of interests and see what their automatic admission requirement are. And if they don’t have automatic admission check their average SAT score for admitted students.In my personal opinion, a 1540 should be enough for most colleges. But if you plan on going to a top university then taking the SAT again for a higher score might not be a bad idea.Best of luck!
So i guess i will preference this with a thought of something i learned as a senior, GPA is more important than SAT scores.Currently i am ranked 9th in my class with a GPA of 3.14 or 3.17 and i had an SAT score with barely any studying of 1210. I have been accepted to a couple universities but if i had focused harder in my sophmore, junior, and freshman year i would have been accepted to more. 1150 isn’t bad, a little under 75%. Study next time try to improve, make sure your classes are well maintained try to strive for 3.75 at the end, have fun and enjoy yourself. Senior year will stress you out at times, you’ll be juggling scholarships with being accepted to colleges. This last couple months have been hectic, so in my effort to relax i am rushing to get our senior project done and then binge watch netflix for the last two weeks of school.Something i wish i did, take a PE while in senior year and don’t be a Teacher’s assistant, unless you want to be a teacher, as it might not give you credit. If you want to ask any questions just reply to this post. Congrats and good luck.
Not quite, but close.I got a 1590 on my SATs when a 1600 was perfect. Actually I got a 1570 with an 800 in math my first try, but it initially came to me as a 1540 then was rescored after a rare scoring mistake. I retook it before I was informed about the rescore and got a 1590 with an 800 in verbal on my second try.http://articles.latimes.com/1997...I was rejected from pretty much every university I applied: Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, CalTech, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, UPenn, Princeton, Swarthmore. The only place I got in was Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate NY, which I attended. RIT wouldn't admit me as a computer science major, so I was forced to major in mathematics.I participated in a lot of high school activities: debate, academic decathlon, great books, Boy Scouts, etc. I published a novel mathematics paper in high school. My problem was GPA: I had a 2.1 because all my classes moved way too slow, I was bored out of my mind, and I never did homework.My high school didn't allow me in several advanced classes due to grades, so I borrowed the textbooks for classes I was refused admittance, took the AP exams anyway, and got 5's. I also took a bunch of CLEP exams because reading books and acing tests is really easy. I had enough credits to start college with junior standing... I was a senior after the fall quarter.I've found lack of access to an Ivy League school meant I could never get into a class that moves fast enough for me and I practically never encounter a peer who thinks like I do. All my life I've felt like everything is moving in slow motion. I hate being the smartest person in the room all the time, with the pace of the room set to someone 50 IQ points below me. It's like a constant urge to run, but your shoelaces are tied together.I've never been able to recover from not getting into a decent college. My whole life I've operated at far below my potential because opportunities flow from the piece of paper you get, not from how fast you think or how much you know.If you don't get into a good college, your life is over.Hopefully someday I'll have kids and I'll be able to tell my kids that even though homework is completely useless for learning things (reading a textbook or hearing a professor is sufficient), you have to waste your time conforming with the broken institution -- because otherwise your life will be ruined and you'll always be surrounded by idiots.