UCS senior earns perfect ACT score

Utica Community Schools senior Daniel Mathew is among the less than one percent of high school students earning a perfect score of 36 on the ACT college admissions exam.

Mathew, of Henry Ford II High School and the son of Vini and Thomas Mathew of Shelby Township, earned the perfect composite score during the February ACT testing window.

Mathew also attends the Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology program, where is a member of the internationally-recognized ThunderChickens FIRST Robotics team.

At Henry Ford II, he is a member of the National Honor Society and this year was elected the State Secretary for HOSA, a national organization that promotes the health sciences.

Mathew also recently participated in the Summer Research Apprentice Program (SRAP) in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Wyoming from June 14 ق│ô July 24, 2015. SRAP is an intensive, six week, paid summer research program held at the University of Wyoming and funded by Wyoming NSF EPSCoR through the National Science Foundation grant.

By earning the perfect score, Mathew placed among the estimated less than one percent of high school students who annually take the ACT.
In the most recent report from ACT, Inc., the average ACT score for the Class of 2014 was 21. Only 1,407 ق│ô or 0.076% of the more than 1.8 million students taking the exam ق│ô earned a perfect score.

The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science. Each test is scored on a scale of 1-36, and a student’s composite score is the average of the four test scores. Some students also take ACT’s optional Writing Test, but the score for that test is reported separately and is not included within the ACT composite score.

In a letter recognizing this exceptional achievement, ACT CEO Jon Whitmore said, “Your exceptional scores will provide any colleges to which you choose to apply ample evidence of your readiness for the academic rigors that lie ahead.”