re: Is the ACT weighted differently than it was 15-20 years ago?

Girl at my kid’s school got a 36 twice, and got rejected by MIT and all her Ivy League choices. The Asian bias is real.

Back in my day we didn't study for the ACT, we watched "Where There's a Will There's an A" with John Ritter.

Students now are taught how to take the test and take repeated practice tests. Also, these days most students take the test multiple times. That is all much different than it was back in the 80s and 90s.

I didn't even show up to take my ACT because I was so drunk and hungover and also very high, however I still managed to make a perfect score of 36. I also did this two other times because I was bored.

Georgia Tech. Not bad by any means, just not high on her list.

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Georgia Tech. Not bad by any means, just not high on her list.

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Full ride?

I graduated in '99 and took it once as a junior. No prep or practice tests, just showed up and took it. A friend's son took it last year and he mentioned all the practice tests, workshops and other stuff he had done to prep for it. They even had an elective at his high school called ACT Prep. Kids are just better prepared for it today than they were 10-20 years ago.

There are.

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As the charts above indicate, there was a moderate and gradual increase in average ACT scores until they peaked in 2007. After, average scores began to decline until 2014 when they increased slightly. However, 2016 saw a drop in scores once again. There has been discussion that the downward trend in average ACT scores could be a result of the No Child Left Behind Act and the test-based teaching style in US schools. This slight increase in ACT scores in 2014 could be attributed to the changes ACT, Inc. made to the ACT so that it could better align with high school curricula. Overall, though, average ACT scores have remained relatively stable. For a long while it was predominantly students in the Midwest that took the ACT, but lately the test has begun to spread to the rest of the US as more and more states are requiring students to take it. Consequently, more students have been taking the ACT each year over the past decade. Even with more students taking the ACT, however, the data shows that students generally do better on the ACT than they do on the SAT—for which there has been a steady, stronger decline in scores. (However, the long-term results of the 2016 SAT redesign aren't yet known.)

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Interdasting

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About 2,800 students out of over 2 million test takers obtained a perfect score last year, a little over 0.1%.

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Being such a small percentage doesn't it seem unusual that most of the parents of those kids with perfect ACT scores all post on the OT? Should not be surprised though, the OT also has the highest percentage of successful casino gamblers of any collection of people.