Terrific Teens: Incoming senior at Bonneville High School records perfect score on ACT
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IDAHO FALLS — Analee Grover is entering her senior year at Bonneville High School. She is among an exclusive group of students who have achieved a perfect 36 on their ACT.
Grover, who has been involved in ballroom dancing at school since her freshman year, was just finishing dance class recently when she received an email informing her of the perfect score. She told EastIdahoNews.com that she was so shocked she showed it to the dancers she was with for confirmation.
Finding out that around one-quarter of 1% — or 25 out of every 10,000 — of all test takers earn a perfect score was “mind-blowing.
“It’s, kind of, surreal because I definitely didn’t expect to get that score, and I didn’t take any ACT-prep courses or anything, I just kind of went into the test blind,” she said.
“Earning a top score on the ACT is a remarkable achievement,” ACT CEO Janet Godwin said in a news release regarding Grover’s achievement. “A student’s exceptional score of 36 will provide any college or university with ample evidence of their readiness for the academic rigors that lie ahead.”
With one year of high school remaining, Grover has her intentions regarding college and beyond well in focus.
She plans on attending BYU-Idaho, where she will major in writing or editing. Then, she hopes to pursue a unique career rarely aimed for.
“If I could just copy edit for a career, I would enjoy that,” she said.
With dreams of spending her days reading through copy in search of grammatical errors, it would seem safe to assume Grover enjoys reading. And she does.
“My parents definitely stressed the importance of reading,” she said. “My mom is an English teacher, so I did a lot of reading growing up.”
Despite choosing a career that can be pursued anywhere, Grover has no plans of moving away from the only home she has known, not only because she loves eastern Idaho but she also doesn’t see herself as a fit in any major publishing centers.
“I’m not really a people person, and I don’t like big cities, so I’ll probably stay here around my family,” she said.
In her free time, Grover is usually dancing or reading, but she also enjoys singing — she plans to join the choir rather than the dance team her senior year — and baking. She recently made her first loaf of sourdough using a starter she received as a birthday gift.
“I thought it turned out pretty good for my first attempt,” Grover said.