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[quote=Anonymous]Definitely start the common app in August.  DD low key worked on the personal statement and list of extra curricular activities during the month of August.  By the time school started, she was done with the  essay and through the process of thinking about topics/options she also had a rough idea of how to answer many of the short supplemental questions for colleges.  So in September she could get cracking on writing the supplemental essays rather than thinking about topics.

I know lots of people say that you should only take the ACT or SAT 2-3 times because you reach our max result within these attempts.  In our case, our DD took the ACT four times.  The first time was for practice and she did well.  The second and third times were "for real" but the results were not as good as the first one because I think she felt the stress. At the last minute she took the ACT again in early November and did fantastically.  There was enough time to get the results into the Early Action/Early Decision schools so that worked well for us.  Again, I think for her the November test was low stress which contributed to her doing better.  She also prepped the least for the November test because she still remembered the tips from previous sittings.  So she only took 2 refresher classes which was cost effective.

Good Luck.  [/quote]

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