Less than one percent of all test takers get a perfect score on the ACT and recently, two of them are from Mundelein. According to PrepScholar 0.22% of test takers get a 36 out of 36 on the ACT.
MHS Senior Paige Prochnow is one of the students who earned the perfect score on the ACT. Currently, Prochnow’s top two schools are Washington University and Northwestern University. Prochnow shared she would like to pursue a degree in medicine and possibly become a pediatrician or family medicine physician.
Prochnow said, “To prepare for the test, I did some practice problems from the ACT website to get a feel for the type of problems in each test section, and found websites and YouTube videos that helped with harder English and math questions.”
Prochnow did not expect a perfect ACT score, but after she took the test she felt that she did well in the test.
MHS Senior Liam O’Neill also earned a perfect score on the ACT. Currently O’Neill has five schools on his college list: the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. O’Neill is planning on double majoring in either economics, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, nuclear engineering, or molecular engineering.
O’Neill said, “Yes, there are a lot of options that are still in the air, but each subject is so fascinating to me that I cannot possibly know until I have dipped my feet in each area.”
If he were to go into engineering he would like to pursue a career for NASA or Lockheed Martin; if he chooses economics he would want to work for a big insurance firm.
O’Neill shared, “My major method of studying was just to practice, practice, practice. I began my studying around sophomore year using Khan Academy for the PSAT and SAT. When the testing cycle switched to the ACT around my junior year, I switched my practices over to the ACT website where I took a multitude of practice tests until I felt confident in my abilities.”
O’Neill knew he was in for an impressive score but did not know that a 36 was going to be his score.
