Bloomfield Hills 8th Grader Has Perfect ACT Score

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI – A Bloomfield Hills student achieved a perfect, 36-point composite score on his ACT test, a feat accomplished by only one-tenth of 1 percent of students who take the college entrance test.

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Did we mention Alan Zhang, 13 isn’t in high school yet?

He’s a eighth at West Hills Middle School, where his principal, Rob Durecka, is still shaking his head over the young whiz kid’s accomplishment.

Zhang, whose family moved to the area four years ago so he could attend Bloomfield Hills schools, took the exam on April 9 as part of Northwestern University’s Midwest Academic Talent Search. He said he “felt disbelief” when he learned the results.

District spokesperson Shira Good told the Free Press that although a representative of ACT said eighth-graders’ scores aren’t measured, the odds of a student at that grade level acing the test “would have to be one-millionth of one percent.”

» For more on this story, go to the Detroit Free Press.

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