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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SAT one time - 1590

PSAT in 9th, 10th and 11th.  Aced the nmsqt- PSAT in 11th.  A huge jump from 9th grade...went from mediocre to exceptional. Fed PSAT results from CollegeBoard to the   Khan Academy website by linking the two and did the personalized study guide from Khan Academy to do targeted prep for PSAT and SAT.

Finished the nmsqt-PSAT and SAT at the beginning of 11th grade. 
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This sounds like a lot of prep. Does a high score accurately reflect aptitude if it requires prep to attain? [b]Not throwing shade at your DC; genuinely wondering what the point of the SAT is.[/b][/quote]

Yes, lots of prep, planning, studying for him.  Lots of involvement of the parents to support him in terms of sweat, time and money from k-12.  Lots of effort to keep the household and family loving, healthy, functional, intact, connected, supportive, humming and happy. Lots of collaborative planning so that milestones and socializing, fun and travel, EC opportunities and internships were also not missed.  Lots of attention to diet, sleep, mental, emotional and physical health.  It was a lot of work.  Not something that all parents and all households can do.

No shade taken. Who really knows what the rites of passage are anymore? I am sure the normies were having fun and looking forward to a bright and glorious future.

What is the point of SAT?  I don't know. US education system is broken.  What makes even less sense than SAT is the need for teacher recommendations. But that's another story.

Anyways, we are expats here. We don't know when rules will be changed for admissions so we made sure that the kid excelled in every criteria.

What did it get my kid?  I don't know.  How much of magic can happen just because he clicked the "Link to Khan Academy" button on the CollegeBoard website? 8K in NMS scholarship and 50K tuition for 4 years? A double major and 0 student debt? International trips with friends and his girlfriend? 3 well paying internships - that made him 50K richer when he left college? 1 great tech job paying 200K, 50K signing bonus, a job  offered to him by the dint of his internship performance?   Who knows.

We are talking about butterfly effect here.  It is all a mystery to me.  The very first internship and research experience as a  college freshman did look at the SAT scores, but later on it was just college GPA, coursework, internship experience, coding and engineering challenges etc.

Maybe SAT is used to just winnow the minnows? [size=50]🐟 [/size] 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
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My minnow got the same score with no prep, so 🤷🏻‍♀️.[/quote]

Wow! Then your minnow is basically an amazing [size=50]🐡[/size].  A stealth overachiever.  A true genius.  Bravo!![/quote]

I wish! But no, I don’t think the score says anything of the kind. It checks a box on college apps, that’s all.[/quote]

How does it feel to just know that things will always turn out great?  I wish my kids and I had this confidence.  Jenna Ortega has also talked about approaching life with the confidence of an average White man...and that is such a winning hack in life. We are just destined to work hard for something that is nothing more than a box on college apps.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOaFYIdDKCs/

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My DC is an Asian woman, so not sure how this is applicable.[/quote]

NP and don’t be so literal. I’ve never thought of it like that, since I’m a woman and POC but that’s basically how I live my life. I don’t compare to race. It’s just about approaching things with confidence that you can do anything.

Back to OP - kid 1 didn’t take them at all. He went test optional. We encouraged him to at least try. He didn’t want to. He was fine with college admissions and is a current senior.  No, he didn’t apply to any T20 schools.

DC2 - spring of 10th grade after Alg 2 for the first time.  Fall of 11th for the 2nd will be the 2nd.  This one will want to apply to more selective schools. [/quote]

The PP to whom I was responding was insinuating that my blasé attitude towards the SAT was due to being a privileged white male. I was merely correcting that PP.[/quote]

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