Chances for Princeton ED

Dizzymom
Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:50:22 +0000

Cookiemom,

I find your post fascinating. Are you suggesting that in the reviewing process, creating a class with depth and dimension is actually considered at all schools, even the academically elite?

My younger S, a HS freshman, has a tradition of outperforming on every level the predictions of any standardized testing vehicle he has taken. I don’t think he is a child who ‘doesn’t test well’. I think he tests pretty much as he should, and then by virtue of sheer will and desire, he goes on to achieve at a much higher rate than his test scores would suppose. He has done this since second grade. He is also an incredibly delightful and charismatic human being (not that you would believe such a thing, coming from his mother). In the back of my mind, as my older one has never met a standardized test that hasn’t liked him (he scored an 800 on his first and only try at the SAT Verbal) I have never truly been able to enjoy his success because inwardly I cringe a bit, thinking about what awaits my younger one…

When the annual standardized test scores show up each year for YS, I glance at them and stash them away in a file – he has no idea where he stands on the grid, so to speak, but PSAT’s are only a year away and I would love to be able to tell him he still has a chance if he can’t ultimately make the 1500 range…

Would you say it can happen?

Dizzymom