Any advantage to taking early SATs?

fogfog
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:24:12 +0000

Our student was a top recruit and had tons of APs etc…and took the SAT in Jan of Jr yr.
Looking back, there was no reason to do that, as March would have been fine - perhaps better. Though the ACT turned out to be a better format/score.

Point is–it might be a bit sport dependent. Our student was only going to be faxing the transcripts/scores to hyp etc after May of Jr yr and would only be getting calls starting July 1…
a soph score wouldn’t have helped.

However a friend’s dd is a soccer recruit and verballed this yr–and needed some of those things earlier.

Don’t rush it… I dont see a benefit of doing anything soph yr and those scores will show up for schools that require ALL scores— so unless like CatsMeow your student will be tutoring/fixing weak section…no reason to add the stress.

Our student took the SAT 1x and the ACT2x…

Different tests and worth trying both to see which is a better format.