Student Stories

This week, we met two students from Turkey who scored high on the ACT® test and are soon heading to their top-choice universities in the United States. We knew we would meet two bright, hardworking students, but little did we know we would encounter such a degree of tenacity and persistence, not to mention their multi-faceted approach to schooling. Ege Atila Ege Atila, a senior high school student from Istanbul, Turkey, scored a successful 33 Composite score (out of 36) on the ACT test, helping him achieve his ambition to study music in the United States. He is now getting ready to pursue his dream of becoming a songwriter and composer, taking the first steps to study music at the prestigious University of Chicago. Ege followed a structured way of preparing for the ACT. After initially stu...