Madison Edgewood senior gets a perfect ACT, almost on SAT
6 Dane County Students Score a Perfect 36 on the 2007 ACT

Andy Hall:

Edgewood High School senior Matthew Everts recently learned he's just about perfect -- when it comes to the two major college-entrance exams, anyway.

Matthew, who hopes to attend a university on the West Coast, received a 36, the highest possible composite score, on the ACT.

He remembers feeling focused when he took the ACT in June, a week before tackling the SAT.

"I knew that if I did well I wouldn't have to take the test again," Matthew said Tuesday. "Not having to take a four-hour test is always a good thing."

On the SAT, Matthew received a perfect 800 on critical reading and math, two of the three SAT Critical Reasoning Tests, along with a 740 out of a possible 800 on the writing test.

Matthew also took the SAT in three subject areas -- chemistry, math level two and U.S. history -- and received a perfect score on all three tests.

Tamira Madsen:

(Adam) Schneider, who plays trumpet in the Middleton school band and is a member of the ecology club, expects to attend college and study biology at UW-Eau Claire or St. Olaf College, a liberal arts college in Minnesota. He also plans on working toward a graduate degree in botany, doing field research and teaching once he finishes school.

Schneider is one of six Dane County students to post perfect marks on the ACT test during the 2007-08 school. Others who earned perfect marks were Mary Kate Wall and Matthew Everts from Edgewood High School, Axel Glaubitz and Dianna Amasino from Madison West High School and Alex Van Abel from Monona Grove High School. All the students were juniors when they took the test.

At the state level, 22 students received perfect scores on the ACT test last school year. On the national level, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of students that take the ACT test earn a perfect mark.

Meanwhile, six Madison Metropolitan School District students earned perfect test scores in 2006.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 3, 2008 6:45 AM
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