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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DD is current Sophomore at highly competitive school in FCPS. She is trying to decide whether to take both SAT and ACT or just SAT in Jr year (anyone on the forum have genuine advise on which is better please share. tks!). Just making sure to keep up the GPA and possibly do 1-2 clubs, not a sports kid. Other than that not much research into college admissions. We'll probably start touring in state colleges next spring to get general idea about the admissions requirements. [/quote]
I could have written this post!
Sophomore in magnet program so a pretty academic kid.  Trying to thread the needle with having him do whatever is required to get into a good program without adding to what is already a high intensity high school experience.  Also wondering whether he should take both SAT and ACT and trying to figure out how many AP classes he should take.
10th grade seems like a good time to figure out all of this.  It sounds like 11th grade will be a very intense year with SAT test, ACT ? maybe, 2 or 3 AP classes, maybe SAT subject tests and college visits so if we can do any advance research now so we are not flailing around then that would be good.  He will spend the summer after 11th grade doing a research internship so we would like to spread things out as much as possible.
We have been saving for years now but we are still going to be a little short and have not really had any specific colleges in mind until recently.  He is a hard working, academically oriented kid, who is equally good at and interested in the humanities and the life sciences and we have not wanted to push him in any particular direction and have not pushed any particular college or type of college in our discussions.  We've had frank discussions about finances and the trade offs of spending the college fund for undergrad vs. going public as an undergrad to have some left over for grad school. My biggest hope as a parent is for him to end up in a place where he is happy and feels supported by peers and faculty.  [/quote]

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