Terrific Teens: Incoming senior at Bonneville High School records perfect score on ACT

IDAHO FALLS — Analee Grover is entering her elder twelvemonth astatine Bonneville High School. She is among an exclusive group of students who person achieved a cleanable 36 connected their ACT.

Grover, who has been progressive successful ballroom dancing astatine schoolhouse since her freshman year, was conscionable finishing creation people precocious erstwhile she received an email informing her of nan cleanable score. She told EastIdahoNews.com that she was truthful shocked she showed it to nan dancers she was pinch for confirmation.

Finding retired that astir one-quarter of 1% — aliases 25 retired of each 10,000 — of each trial takers gain a cleanable people was “mind-blowing.

“It’s, benignant of, surreal because I decidedly didn’t expect to get that score, and I didn’t return immoderate ACT-prep courses aliases anything, I conscionable benignant of went into nan trial blind,” she said.

“Earning a apical people connected nan ACT is simply a singular achievement,” ACT CEO Janet Godwin said successful a news merchandise regarding Grover’s achievement. “A student’s exceptional people of 36 will supply immoderate assemblage aliases assemblage pinch ample grounds of their readiness for nan world rigors that dishonesty ahead.”

With 1 twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse remaining, Grover has her intentions regarding assemblage and beyond good successful focus.

She plans connected attending BYU-Idaho, wherever she will awesome successful penning aliases editing. Then, she hopes to prosecute a unsocial profession seldom aimed for.

“If I could conscionable transcript edit for a career, I would bask that,” she said.

With dreams of spending her days reference done transcript successful hunt of grammatical errors, it would look safe to presume Grover enjoys reading. And she does.

“My parents decidedly stressed nan value of reading,” she said. “My mom is an English teacher, truthful I did a batch of reference increasing up.”

Despite choosing a profession that tin beryllium pursued anywhere, Grover has nary plans of moving distant from nan only location she has known, not only because she loves eastbound Idaho but she besides doesn’t spot herself arsenic a fresh successful immoderate awesome publishing centers.

“I’m not really a group person, and I don’t for illustration large cities, truthful I’ll astir apt enactment present astir my family,” she said.

In her free time, Grover is usually dancing aliases reading, but she besides enjoys singing — she plans to subordinate nan choir alternatively than nan creation squad her elder twelvemonth — and baking. She precocious made her first loaf of sourdough utilizing a starter she received arsenic a day gift.

“I thought it turned retired beautiful bully for my first attempt,” Grover said.