ACT Requirement

Is an ACT of 24 required to receive funding for the SD Opportunity Scholarship?   

Yes - The rules for the SD Opportunity Scholarship are set up in State Statute 13-55-31 and state that a student must have a 24 ACT or higher to qualify for the SD Opportunity Scholarship.   While the laws regarding the SD Opportunity scholarship do grant some situations where an exemption can be granted to the rules of the scholarship, state statute does not grant the Board of Regents authority to waive the Initial Eligibility Requirements.

• The ACT Score must be an official score reported on an official test report issued from ACT.  Test Scores can be reported by the High School on the Student’s transcript and can be used to qualify for the scholarship.

ACT Super Score

If you are using an ACT Super Score to qualify for the scholarship, this must be ACT reported and may not be one that is manually calculated by the student, high school, or university.  In most high schools, admin is not able to report ACT Super Scores on the student’s high school transcript

• In this case, the student must request that a new, updated ACT Score report must be sent to the university campus.