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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What?  I had no idea this was a thing.  I thought they were all taking the PSAT in fall.  Are you all doing the both PSAT and SAT around the same time?  Or skipping PSAT?[/quote]

Still take PSAT.  For kids who do well on SAT, prepping for that during summer before Jr year can result in a great PSAT National Merit score.

The flip side, since our child decided to do ACT during that summer, they never prepped for SAT so didn't have a score in the National Merit range for PSAT.  I personally couldn't argue that it was worth them prepping for PSAT, as school grades are more important and they have a varsity Fall sport.  Even though they are among the top students at their school, and will apply to some highly competitive colleges, I doubt National Merit would make much difference for anything for DC in admissions and DC is very unlikely to apply to a school a scholarship tied to that recognition.

One thing I learned was that DC did best when "they" wanted to take the test. It was best not to push certain test dates but ask when they wanted to take it and then they owned it. [/quote]

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