| My son, who is a junior, does not discuss his SAT scores with his peers, partly because he does not want some of the others to feel badly. He also does not like to brag. One of his classmates has taken the SAT four times. He plans to go back and take it again in the fall, because he is seeking a particular score for a highly selective school. (The young man needs to raise his math score about 100-130 points) He will talk about it with teachers, because they are generally interested.
In fact, his AP English teacher and his dad, a math whiz, have this friendly little rivalry going. When he took the SAT in January, the two joked that this would be a battle to see if he were more of a math kid or an English kid. That morning, we all got up to check his scores. His teacher awaited a phone call from him. He got the same score on the two sessions! Satisfied, my son went back to bed for an hour. He didn't call his teacher, so she just thought the worse. Fortunately for her and my husband, they still laugh and joke that they can share him! |