I get that as a profession journalism exists to report happenings largely uncritically but I wish we could get the teeniest amount analysis because just a little thought would have made this a non-story or a very different headline, "students, don't assume your ACT scores being shown as above average means they'll be above average in the pool of applicants at university" with an explanation in the article that this has always technically been true but that the gap between the average as reported by the ACT and the average as seen by schools will be wider this year and here's why.