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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is taking the sat subject tests but not studying for them. Let the chips fall where they may![/quote]

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Ha! Just like we did in the old days when no had heard about prepping for SATs, let alone the subject tests.[/quote]
My goodness, when was this?  I'm 45 and got books for practice tests, and there were classes available.  Same for the LSAT and/or the GRE a few years later.[/quote]

LOL!  1970.

In those days you could, and pretty much were expected, to spend a Saturday testing. SATs in the morning, SAT subjects in the afternoon.  Took it once like most and let the chips fall wherever they landed.  Not possible these days of course.  On the bright side, I learned that these SATs, taken before they were renormed, are the only SATs accepted by MENSA, should one ever want to join.

I spent an afternoon in the library and chose four colleges to apply to.  Ran the list by my father, who nixed Harvard because of some experiences he had had with them.  Typed up my applications on a manual typewriter (different for each, no common app) over winter break and sent in.  No one reviewed.  Accepted Princeton and UCLA, wait listed Stanford, went to first.  It was all pretty much no sweat, but I think we were as excited as kids today and as disappointed when we received the letters from the colleges.[/quote]

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