Land O' Lakes High Student Aces ACT, Plans Career in Medicine

He was confident that he’d done well, but he didn’t know how well.

So when Land O’ Lakes High senior Rohit Iyer got the news that he , he was “pleased and excited,” he said.

Nationwide, only about one-tenth of one percent of test-takers achieve a top score, according to a media release. Iyer was

Iyer, an International Baccalaureate student who took the test during his junior year, said he didn’t put much time into specifically preparing for the ACT, only taking two practice tests.

“I had been preoccupied with school exams, but I had spent a lot of time preparing for the SAT earlier this year, which was beneficial,” Iyer said.

Iyer has not decided which universities he will apply to yet—“I have a list of about 10 schools that I will be narrowing down in the next few weeks,” he said.

No matter where he ends up, he knows just want he wants to do once he gets there.

“I want to study medicine and become a doctor,” Iyer said.

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