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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't recommend "practicing relentlessly."  What an awful way to spend your last summer home.  Go to a test optional college!  You'll get into a great place that's a good fit for you.  [/quote]

Whether to "practice relentlessly" (and I'm not that PP) is a decision OP needs to make depending on his/her priorities, right? If OP thinks getting into a dream college is more important than 10 weeks of watching Glee reruns, unless you have better summer options, then go for it, OP. And it's not your last summer home, next summer is. I think it would be realistic to shoot for colleges that take 1800 SATs, not 2200 SATs, and there's obviously no guarantee your scores will improve dramatically. But you're old enough to make these trade-offs yourself, OP.

Test-optional colleges are a good choice too, like PP said.

That, or try the ACT. I think it's really true that certain types of test takers do better on the ACT.

Re SAT test prep, some of the test prep companies do a "diagnostic" test first thing. This can help you focus your prep time on the sub-subjects you really need to improve -- geometry or algebra or fractions or polynomials or english grammar or reading comprehension. I think one of the online test prep companies (Princeton??) does the diagnostic too for about $600, which can be cheaper than some of the group classes run by local test prep companies. Or, your school may offer test prep at a discount although, if you're thinking of retaking the SATs in September, that may be too late. [/quote]

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