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CHICAGO, April 12 (UPI) -- "Perfect" may no longer be enough to gain college admission as Adam Ammar of Chicago found out after scoring an ideal 36 on ACT college entrance exam.

Only 251 students out of the 2.1 million people who took the ACT last year matched the 36, the highest possible on the test. However, Ammar says he was rejected or wait-listed this year by nearly all of his top college choices, including Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and Columbia, reports The Chicago Sun-Times.

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