A pair of seniors at The Pennington School achieved the highest possible composite score of 36 on the ACT, a leading United States college admissions test.
Kelly Clark, of Lawrenceville, and Jacob Feldstein, of Princeton, accomplished their respective scores, which is earned by fewer than one-tenth of one percent of students taking the ACT.
Since November 1959, when the ACT was created to compete against the more widely known Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, nearly two million high school graduates take the test each year.
The ACT is comprised of a 45-minute English exam, an hour-long mathematics exam, a 35-minute reading evaluation and a 35-minute science exam, each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student’s composite score for the more than three hour test is the average of the four test scores.
Each year, the test is administered six times in the U.S. and Canada.
Some students also take the optional 40-minute ACT writing test, but the score for that test is reported separately.
“We at Pennington are extremely proud of Kelly and Jacob for their outstanding achievement on the ACT,” Pennington Headmaster William S. Hawkey said. “They are both exemplary students, inside the classroom and beyond, but more important, they are exceptional young people. We know that their futures are very bright.”
Kelly is the daughter of Carol and Michael Clark, of Lawrenceville. Jacob is the son of Lori and Michael Feldstein, of Princeton.
The Pennington School, founded in 1838, is an independent coeducational school for students in grades 6 through 12, in both day and boarding programs, with a college preparatory curriculum.
