Parents expect too much out of wanting their kids to either live up to their level, or exceed where they couldn't.
Do your best to not take it personally.
In this case, they always say they want me to exceed them. They started out badly. They married at 19 and 20 years old, I was born 13 months later, neither had college educations, and my dad kept getting laid off. As for me, I've had my major decided since I was about six years old and have the high expectations and study habits of a homeschooler (full time from '04 to '13), so I'm already in a better academic position than they were at my age.
Your grades look fine, but you should raise your ACT/SAT scores. If you're getting straight As (which it looks like you are), you can be scoring within the 99th percentile. However, a 27 on the ACT is only the 87th percentile.
What I'd do first is try to decide which test you'll score higher on. Buy the 'SAT blue book' or check it out from your library, and then do one or two of the practice tests. If you do better on the SAT than you did on the ACT, then focus your efforts on increasing your SAT score. If it's lower, then the ACT is your choice.
By all means, I should have and probably can do better on the ACT. My mom is saying I can take it again but only if I pay for it, but I don't know if I should take it again or call it good and apply at SLU. 27 is good for enrollment and the program I want to go into has no competition (for the past five years, they didn't fill an average of 11 spaces out of 35 or so, with 2014-15 having 18 empty.
I'm also not taking the SAT as it would have no use to me with what I'm doing.
