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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't understand the CTY point. My kid went to private school and did a CTY summer program as did several classmates. And I know plenty of other people from private schools who have done the CTY summer programs. But it doesn't have anything really to do with PSATs regardless of where you came from. [b]Yes my kid took the SAT in 7th grade but that was hardly preparation for a test 4 years later[/b]. In fact if anything it was anti-prep because so much of the math was way beyond what she had learned in 7th grade math that it was silly to take it. Having been in both private and public schools there is plenty of standardized testing and test prep in both.

Similarly the APs don't have much to do with PSAT performance. Most kids only take 1-2 APs, if any, before 11th grade so in October of 11th grade their AP experience would not be that great. And I think the AP tests are much different than the PSATs/SATs. At least the ones my DC has taken are heavy on the essay/DBQ sections. And the multiple choice is very knowledge/subject based.

A huge piece of it is still SES based, not just generally but because those are the kids who have the resources for tutoring and test prep. Good test prep made an enormous difference for my kids.[/quote]

Wow,  your kid took the SAT in the 7th?  I took it for the first time in the Spring of 11 th grade.  Amusing... hardly preparation for a test 4 years later.  Maybe the preparatory SAT exam for a 12 year old in the 7th grade really doesn't count or amount to much!  I wonder how many private school kids are taking SSAT and SAT in middle school well before high school and the PSAT and SAT?  What a "Romnesque" luxury?   I bet your child must have aced the PSAT in 10th and 11th grades?
 
 
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