Kennesaw State University ACT Scores: A 19 to 26 Middle 50%

At Kennesaw State University, the middle 50% of enrolled students who submitted an ACT scored between 19 and 26, and the reported midpoint is 23. That is a 7 point spread, which is wide, so this is not a class clustered tightly around one number. The overall admission rate is 69%, across an undergraduate population of 41,254 in Kennesaw, Georgia. Everything below describes students who already enrolled and reported a score, not a requirement you have to clear.

Kennesaw State's reported ACT record, line by line

A short list of figures makes up everything the federal data reports here about test scores and selectivity. This is that list, unedited.

Two things to hold onto before reading anything into it. First, these percentiles come from students who enrolled and submitted an ACT. That is not the same group as everyone who applied, and not the same group as everyone who was admitted, since some admitted students enroll elsewhere and some enrolled students never sent a score. Second, a percentile describes a past class. It is not a cutoff, a minimum, or a bar. Nothing in this record says 19 is a floor or 26 is a target the university set.

The 7 point middle is the real story, not the 23

Most of what you can honestly conclude about Kennesaw State's ACT profile comes from the width of the band rather than from any single number inside it. Seven points separate the 25th percentile from the 75th. Half of the enrolled score submitters landed somewhere in 19 to 26, and that stretch covers a lot of ground. By this measure a 20 and a 25 are both middle-of-the-class scores at the same school.

That breaks the usual question. "Am I above or below the average" assumes a class packed tightly around one value, and this one is not. The reported midpoint deserves the same care: the exact center of 19 to 26 is 22.5, so the reported midpoint of 23 sits a half point above the arithmetic middle of the range. Read it as a reference point pulled from the reported range, not as the class average.

Scale reinforces the point. With 41,254 undergraduates, any single summary statistic is flattening an enormous amount of variety, and a wide interquartile band is what that flattening looks like in the data. If you want the general mechanics of percentile bands before you compare schools, start with how ACT scores work and college ACT score ranges.

Where a specific score sits inside the reported range

Here is the honest translation of a score into a position in the reported distribution of enrolled score submitters. Positions only. No predictions.

Notice how much of the 1 to 36 scale sits inside that band. Four of the six rows above are all describing the same middle half of the class. That is why treating any one of these numbers as a personal verdict is a mistake: none of them tells you what will happen to an application, because the data set contains no information about individual decisions.

To find your own position, score a real attempt first. The free ACT score calculator converts raw counts into a composite, and practice test guidance covers how to take one under real timing so the number means something.

What a 69% admission rate is measuring, and what it is not

Sixty-nine percent is an institution-wide figure: it reflects all applicants to the university in one reporting year, admitted or not. It is not a per-program number, it is not broken out by score, and it is emphatically not your personal chance of admission. Two applicants with identical 23 composites do not each have a 69% probability. That is not what the statistic is built from.

It is also a different population from the score band above. The admission rate counts applicants. The 19 to 26 range counts students who enrolled and reported a score. You cannot chain the two together to work out how admitted students scored, because the data does not connect them.

What is fair to say is narrower and more useful: this record shows a large public institution reporting a broad ACT range and admitting a majority of its applicants in the reported year. What the record does not contain is how much weight the ACT carries in any individual decision, whether the university considers scores at all for some applicants, or what any program inside it looks for. Those questions belong to Kennesaw State's own admissions office, not to a percentile table.

Four points and three points: planning against this band

The arithmetic of this specific band is easy to work with. Four points take you from the 25th percentile mark of 19 to the reported midpoint of 23. Three more take you from 23 to the 75th percentile mark of 26. Those are movements within a reported range, not promises about outcomes, and no honest prep resource can guarantee you any of them. But they do tell you the size of the moves worth planning around.

On the Enhanced ACT 2025 format, the composite is the average of English, Math, and Reading. Science is optional and reported separately, so it stays out of the composite. That averaging is leverage: lifting one of the three sections by 3 points moves the composite by roughly 1 point. Section timing also differs sharply. English gives 50 questions in 35 minutes, about 42 seconds each. Math gives 45 questions in 50 minutes and Reading 36 in 40, both closer to 67 seconds. English is the pace problem. There is also no penalty for a wrong answer, so nothing should be left blank.

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What this page deliberately does not tell you

Being clear about the gaps is part of reading the data correctly.

• No section targets. This data set reports a composite only. Any page giving you English, Math, or Reading targets for Kennesaw State is not getting them from this source.
• No requirement information. Whether the ACT is required, optional, or considered at all is not in this data, so it is not stated here. Confirm it with the university directly.
• One cohort, backward looking. These figures come from the most recent reported cohort of enrolled score submitters. They are not this year's class and not a trend.
• No probabilities. Nothing here estimates whether any particular student is admitted. A percentile is a description, and 69% is an institution-wide ratio.
• Retesting policy is not covered. If you plan to test more than once, read how superscoring works in general, then check what this university actually does with multiple scores.

Source: the US Department of Education College Scorecard, drawing on IPEDS, most recent reported cohort. Prep36 is an independent study site and is not affiliated with ACT, Inc. Our practice questions are original, not official ACT questions.

What these composites cost in raw questions

A composite is not a number you score directly. On the Enhanced ACT it is the average of English, Math and Reading, so reaching one means hitting that scaled score across three sections. Science is optional and reported separately, so it is left out here.

Below is what each scaled score actually costs in correct answers, and how many questions you can afford to miss to still land on it.

Read this correctly. These are not section targets for this school. The College Scorecard reports composite percentiles only, with no section-level data, so nobody can tell you what English or Math score this school expects. What the table shows is the raw cost of a 19 and a 26 in each section, whoever you are aiming at. Build your own section goals from your own practice results.

Turn your practice raw scores into a composite with the free ACT score calculator, then drill the sections costing you the most in the free question bank.

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