In 2010, 1 of every 2,600 students nailed a perfect ACT score. In 2018, it was 1 of every 500
CINCINNATI – Last week, Walnut Hills High School announced that 17 of its students scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college admissions test.
A total of 17 juniors and seniors at the school currently boast perfect scores, with one of those earned in 2017. Treas cited an email he got last week from the parents of one of the 7,000 students who used his program this year. They told him the student’s recent 4-point improvement on the ACT could make her eligible for as much as $100,000 in financial aid.
Perfect scores are skyrocketing all over the country. In Kentucky, the number of perfect scores is nine times higher than it was in 2010. In California, it's 11 times higher. Test prep for the SAT, the other big college admissions test, also is booming. And top scores on that test appear to be rising as well, although a major change in the SAT three years ago makes measuring those numbers more difficult.
“Kids get the message that they’re falling behind,” Schaeffer said. “More importantly, their parents, who have the checkbooks, get the message.” They call me ‘Mr. 36’Conroy, the 18-year-old senior at Walnut, jokes about it, but he wonders, really, if such fierce academic competition is healthy. He got a 34 the first time he took the ACT, and he felt pretty good about it. Then one of his friends got a 34, too.His friends call him “Mr. Perfect Score” and “Mr. 36” now, which Conroy thinks is funny. But at the same time, he questions whether some are putting too much stock in a test score.
It’s not to take anything away from students who earn a 36. “We’re obviously very proud, and it’s a huge accomplishment,” Carson said. But Mason schools are consciously trying to remind students they do not have to be perfect.
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