1100 SAT score

CCsiteObsessed
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:50:33 +0000

The ACT is more straight forward, so he might do slightly better. Nonetheless, it appears he lacks rudimentary English skills. Magic Tree House is less than basic. More than SAT tutoring, he probably needs to take advanced ESL classes. I feel for the kid what with family pressure and all. Like me, he is probably horrible at foreign languages, and his current environment is doing him no favors with respect to improving his English. He should have come to the U.S. before the age of 12 or 13, but then he would have been horribly homesick and his Korean, esp. academic writing, would probably be terrible.

And as for college? Since he comes from money, does he plan to pay someone to write his applications? And then continue to pay for someone or a company to write his papers?

You are a good and generous friend, but I think the problem is more than you can handle alone. But you can make a rule that you only speak to one another in English!