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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t think prepping is a good idea for anyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity or whatever catagory that you want to use. And there is a huge difference between prepping a rising first or second grader to take a test and the SAT. The test for a first or second grader is a basic snap shot of how the child “ranks” in terms of intellectual accumine. It is not meant to be a measure of how much they have studied.  A student who is well read, taken a deent amount of math should do fine on the SAT without prepping because the basics of the vocabulary and math section should have been covered in high schol English and math classes. Prepping for the SAT is more like a basic tune up for the kid.

Honestly, the pressure that we, as adults, are putting on 5-7 year olds is crazy. A large perentage of kids in FCPS will go on to good colleges from Gen Ed. Gen Edkids go on to take AP and IB classes. AAP idoes not have to be a life changing event but the way parents on this forum act makes it feel like their kid is a failure, or maybe they have failed thair kid, if the kid doesn’t get into AAP.

There are hundreds of good colleges that will do a very good job prepping your kid for life. Not everyone has to go to an Ivy League school to be successful. And your kid will be fine if they don’t get into AAP.

So why all the stress? If your child does well on the tests and has that option, great, but they will be fine if they don’t get into AAP as well. If you are this invested at the age of 5-7, then you are probably reading to your kid, doing extra math and science and looking for other ways to enrich your childs education. You are going to be involved in their education and that will increase the likelihood that they will do just fine.

As for prepping for the SAT, the SAT is important but so are letters of recommendations, transcripts and writing samples. 
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