Flushing High School Student Gets Perfect ACT Score

FLUSHING, QUEENS — A Queens high schooler has become one of the rare few to get a perfect score on the ACT, according to a news report.

Westar Zong, an incoming senior at Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, scored 36 out of 36 on the standardized test, the Queens Chronicle reported.

Zong, 17, told the Chronicle he used a free test prep service to study — and now he's returning the favor, by giving free tutoring to middle and high school students for the ACT, SAT and New York City's Specialized High School Admission Test.

More than 1.9 million students took the ACT last year, according to the Chronicle. Just 0.2 percent of them — or 3,741 — got a perfect score.

Zong is now applying to college to study business, science or medicine, he told the Chronicle.

Read the full story in the Queens Chronicle here.