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[quote=Anonymous]It just depends on the kid. Do you have ideas for specific schools your kid would like? If so, I would look at their scores and see if they are in range. If not, ask yourself how you will feel later if they don't get in. For us, I realized I would feel "penny-wise, pound foolish" if I saved the prep money but then my kid didn't get in. We paid for it and his score went up 230 points from his first practice test (but the practice test score seemed low, so we think it was more like 130-150 point gain).

If his score hadn't gone up much, I would have just thought "Oh well, we did what we could. Prep was expensive, but a drop in the bucket for what we are looking at for tuition.

One thing your kid can do now, for free, is take a practice SAT and ACT. You download them from the respective websites. Some kids who don't do well on the SAT rock the ACT. And, honestly, many prep companies start by having you do this anyway to help you decide which your kid should prep for. My kid was pretty equal on both, but just liked the SAT better. He has a couple friends who prefer the ACT, You can read about the difference.[/quote]

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