🤔What is a Good Score for ACT?

American College Testing or ACT is a standardized entrance test taken by students to get admission into undergraduate courses in a university. The examination is usually taken by students studying in the USA or Canada. For those planning to study abroad a good ACT can be extremely beneficial. For this reason, securing a good score for the ACT is mandatory. The ACT examination assesses the science, mathematics, and verbal skills of a candidate. Knowing the good ACT score required for admission will help a student aim for the same. Keep reading to learn more about a good score for ACT.

Exam Name	SAT
Exam Sections	Reading Writing, and Mathematics
Exam Duration	2 hours and 14 minutes
Exam Website	https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/registration

What is a Good ACT Score Overall?

Any composite score above the 50th percentile (19-20) is considered a decent score. However, the score might not be enough to get into the best colleges. Therefore, it is best for the student to aim higher. That is around 25% or a composite score of 24.

Each section of the ACT is measured on a scale (1-36). The overall score would be the average score of the student in all the sections. Therefore, to get a good score it is important to secure a minimum score of 24 in each section. A common range of good ACT scores on the basis of percentile is provided below. It is important to note that the percentile can change each year.

Percentile	Composite	English	Reading	Math	Science
100	36	36	36	36	36
99	34-35	35	34-36	34-35	35
95	31	33-34	33-34	30-31	31
90	29	30-31	31-32	28	28
85	27	27-28	29-30	26	26
80	25-26	25	27	25	25
Good score (75)	24	24	24	24	24
Median score (50)	19-20	19	18	20	20

What is a Good ACT Score Based on Your Colleges?

Universities and colleges have different ACT Score requirements. Therefore, whether a score is good or not depends solely on the university score requirement. Several schools respect the median score (50) secured by students. However, it is best that a student secures a score close to the 75th percentile ACT score of the school. For example, As per the students enrolled in Emory University, the ACT score requirement in the middle 50% is 33-35. It means a student securing 35 on the ACT can have a chance of admission

Good ACT Scores for 20 Popular Colleges

Here we have listed the middle 50% of the 1st year students in popular colleges. The data provided below is for the class of 2025.

University	75th Percentile ACT Score	25th Percentile ACT Score
Bowdoin College	34	32
Boston University	35	33
Colgate University	34	31
Columbia University	35	34
Colorado College	33	29
Indiana University Bloomington	32	27
Pennsylvania State University	33	29
Miami University	31	25
Rice University	35	34
University of Connecticut	33	28
Tulane University	34	31
University of Maryland, College Park	34	34
University of Georgia	34	31
University of Richmond	35	32
University of Minnesota Twin Cities	33	22
Villanova University	34	32
Wesleyan University	35	33
Washington University in St. Louis	35	33
University of Connecticut	33	28

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