Littledebbie3
USMA '28
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Is a 30 good on the ACT ?
Unless you've already been accepted, get it higher.Is a 30 good on the ACT ?
I think you have to consider the return on investment studying for the ACT can give you. Unless you live in a very competitive State/District, once you get 33 or higher, you're pretty much guaranteed to have one of the best ACT scores in your nomination slates, so the time you spend studying for that could be better spent pursuing excellence elsewhere so you can get your WCS up.Definitely keep taking it. Until you’ve leveled out and can’t improve much more, or until you have a 36 . DS took it 4 times and stopped with a 34 at my suggestion. Looking back I should have encouraged him to keep going, because why not?
It depends....Maybe one of those 29 kids is an excellent leader, faced adversity at a small, poor rural school or inner city school and excelled in all other areas including athletics whereas the 35 kid attended a private school and is just smart. Based on total picture, I'd take the 29 kid all day, but surely a congressional board member would see that as well.I am on my local congressman SA nomination committee and my job is to rank the candidates in order and determine who should get an interview. I can tell you this year there were a lot of 29, 30, 31 ACT scores... .but that one candidate had a 35. How do you think the 30 looks now? It only takes one person to have that high score and you could be in trouble.
Sometimes the 29 kid won't even get a chance to make that case. In my son's experience this year, he had two interviews (rep, and one senator) received nominations from both. The other senator ranked based solely on standardized test scores to decide who to interview (my kid's is good/not great). So he didn't get an interview for the "big 3 SAs" from that senator.It depends....Maybe one of those 29 kids is an excellent leader, faced adversity at a small, poor rural school or inner city school and excelled in all other areas including athletics whereas the 35 kid attended a private school and is just smart. Based on total picture, I'd take the 29 kid all day, but surely a congressional board member would see that as well.
I'd take a 29 or 28 or even a 27 as long as they aren't posting threads about "oops I forgot something...how does amnesty work on I-Day"? How many of those posts are coming from folks with stellar grades and test scores?I am on my local congressman SA nomination committee and my job is to rank the candidates in order and determine who should get an interview. I can tell you this year there were a lot of 29, 30, 31 ACT scores... .but that one candidate had a 35. How do you think the 30 looks now? It only takes one person to have that high score and you could be in trouble.
Keep taking it. The estimators are essentially meaningless. Everyone has great everything, test scores are well within the candidates control.My DS is a 29 super score but places in the 93% range on the gain service academy admission candidate score estimator due to high athletic, EC, etc, scores. What do you all think?
What is the gain score estimator and where can it be found?My DS is a 29 super score but places in the 93% range on the gain service academy admission candidate score estimator due to high athletic, EC, etc, scores. What do you all think?