Alex Trevino had a good feeling when he walked out of the ACT testing room on a cold, winter morning this past February.
“I felt good,” he said. “I didn’t know how good at the time, but I knew I did well.”
That confidence, however, did not prevent the jolt that went through the Madison Memorial junior when he opened a letter from CEO Richard Ferguson of the ACT Board eight weeks ago congratulating him on being one of 30 students in the country — and the only one in the state — to have earned a perfect composite score on the test.
“He has a look on his face when he’s really, really excited, and he could not wipe that grin off his face,” Alex’s mother Jackie D’Aoust-Trevino said. “He just said, I got a 36.'”