STEM interest and readiness

Many 2016 high school graduates are interested in STEM majors and careers, but few are well prepared to succeed in first-year college STEM courses. The report found that 48% of the nearly 2.1 million 2016 U.S. high school graduates who took the ACT test had an interest in STEM majors or careers; however, only 26 percent of those graduates met or surpassed the ACT College Readiness Benchmark in STEM.
ACT. (2016). The conditions of STEM 2016. Iowa City, IA: ACT.
http://www.act.org/content/act/en/research/condition-of-stem-2016.html