He showed his mom the score. They screamed, yelled and hugged once they realized it wasn’t a typo. It was real.
GRAND LEDGE, Mich. – Cooper Evans reluctantly left a Christmas party early to get some sleep. He knewThe Michigan high school junior awoke on that cold December day to get to Lansing Christian School by 8 a.m. He had been dreading the test all week.Evans flipped through the pages of an ACT prep book to get ready but otherwise relied on what he learned in his courses at Grand Ledge High School.
To say it went well is an understatement: He scored a 36, the highest possible composite score, a feat achieved by less than one-half of 1% of students who take the test. Of 2019 high school graduates, 4,879 out of nearly 1.8 million students who took the ACT scored a composite 36, according to an ACT news release. The test includes four sections – English, mathematics, reading and science – and each is scored on a scale of up to 36. The total composite score is the average of the four tests.
“I became a high school counselor in 2004, and I’ve never counseled somebody with his academic ability,” said Eddie Saade, who got to know Evans when he came over as a seventh grader to take high school algebra. By eighth grade, Evans was taking high school biology, English and accelerated algebra. By ninth grade, Evans was already in pre-calculus, Saade said.
Evans is a near perfect student, said Courtney Lutz, his AP biology teacher. She first had him in class when Evans came to the high school as an eighth grader from Hayes Middle School for her ninth grade biology class.“He was the most engaged, curious and interested student and therefore a joy to have in class,” she said.
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