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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter takes honors/IB and is an A/B student.  Last year on the PSAT, she got 1110.  She did well on the language portion (90+ percentile) and not as great on math (80+ percentile) - I think overall she was in the 86 percentile or something like that.  She's not great at taking standardized/timed tests (runs out of time, especially in math).

As of now, it looks like she'll go to a state college in VA - probably liberal arts - with an undeclared major.  She not shooting for UVA.  I'd love for her to go to William & Mary (I think it would be a good fit), but I don't think she'll be competitive.  Maybe Christopher Newport or JMU or Mary Washington?  If these are the schools she's looking at, do you think I should send her to an SAT prep course?  [b]I just don't want to spend the money and her time if she's in the ballpark with her SAT scores and looks like a decent candidate for those schools. [/b] On the other hand, I will make the investment if her scores are considered low for those schools.

Any advice?[/quote]

You can't have "we are going to lose, why bother playing the game" attitude. If she wants to try, let her try. Driven kids can improve 200 pts without much difficulties. [/quote]

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