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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get him the SAT Bluebook. It is better than any tutoring for a kid with scores that high.  And "all his friends " getting 2250 is highly doubtful. Only about 14,000 kids nationwide score that high out of the 1,600,000 who take it.[/quote]

Tbh he doesn't have that many friends. He doesn't seem to have any trouble making them but he doesn't like a lot of people and culls it down to just a few people. He's very, very studious (except for actual studying, he hates that), and loves reading (and discussing) gigantic books about history or linguistics or whatever other subject he wants to read about at that time. He also genuinely enjoys math (the theory of it) but can't stand actually solving equations. He managed to get a 77% on a calculus test without making a single calculus error, just making stupid simple math mistakes.  He gets along with people who are most like him, so you can imagine what they're like.

So, his friend group (I guess that would be the best thing to call them?) is 5 or 6 kids who are all taking 5+ APs and are good at pretty much everything. They've started taking their SATs so DS was surprised when his scores were 100-200 points lower then everyone else. Just today he was talking to one of his friends (who got a 2250), when she casually mentioned an SAT prep course. He asked more and it turned out that all of them but one had tutors or were taking prep courses. He knew they were studying more than him but didn't know about this. The one friend who didn't have a tutor and was just studying on her own got a 2180 (which was the second lowest score out of all of them, and the only other score below 2250 any of them received), so he's worried that a tutor is necessary.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely check the blue book out. Certainly looks more appealing than a prep class. [/quote]

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