The ACT

I'm not saying that at all. My only point was that if he could use more money for school, the 50 dollar fee (or whatever) is totally worth it.

Money how?
From where?
Specific examples please?

Because I scored a 32 on the ACT and I didn't receive any additional money besides what's given to everyone who enteres the U of A with a 3.0+ high school GPA.
I applied to a good number of scholarships and a few of them only required a 25+ ACT if anything, and some didn't even require any ACT score. Looking back on it now, any standardized test like that is a pointless formality. I have friends who received fantastic academic grants and hadn't even taken the ACT.
I feel like the real secret to "getting into college" or "getting scholarships" isn't you test scores, it's the ability to write. If you can write a killer essay to a scholarship (along with whatever else they require) you're golden. If anything, it's just one other hoop to jump through so that those more so academic schools can see you as something slightly more interesting than the usual student. But they'll still judge you more so on the personal statement than a number.