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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's. So. Hard.

My kid has taken it 4 times but can't get out of the slums despite her best efforts. She has a 4.0 average and 8 APs btw.[/quote]

Why on earth would you keep taking it? Plenty of test optional choices and plenty of great options for every score range. [/quote]

Not actually that many choices if you don’t want small.  My high grades/lots of leadership daughter with a 1400 SAT feels locked out of schools she knows she can succeed at in her humanities major.  Very ironically, she provides homework help to a couple kids who have really high scores and they are applying to the type of school she wants. She knows she could do the work. She really wants a big school with good academics and those are virtually impossible OOS without a top score.  This is not uncommon.

Of course she is trying to make the best of it and she will be fine.  But likely not at her dream school (which is not an Ivy or anything close).

To another earlier poster, I wish she would have tried the ACT.  She took a practice of both and scored similarly but went with the SAT bc ACT changing midstream for her. In retrospect was a bad decision perhaps.[/quote]

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