Want to know if my 8th grader can sit for SAT exams and does it score matter for College admission? Thanks
Yes, an 8th grader can take the SAT. Back when my D was in middle school some kids took it to qualify for certain gifted programs.
In terms of mattering for college admission, there used to be schools that specified that the tests had to be taken in HS (CMU was one). I’m not sure if that has changed since covid/test optional.
Hopefully someone else can better answer that part of your question.
CMU goes further. They need a score from junior or senior year.
If the kid is taking in 8th grade for a program like JHU-CTY, that’s fine. If the parent is pushing this for any other reason, or the kid wants to do it for giggles, it’s not, IMO
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It won’t matter for college admissions because the earliest you can use a score is 10th grade.
That’s not correct, although colleges, as noted earlier, can set their own admissions requirements
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Not sure, but I’d wait until high school. There’s plenty of practice opportunities available.
My kids took it several times in middle school through their GT program. None of those scores showed up when they were applying to college.
Thankyou very much! this was helpful
One daughter took the SAT in 8th grade. This was indeed related to gifted programs, and I think that it was probably for the same program that @skieurope mentioned.
I do not think that it had any impact at all with regard to university admissions. I also do not think that it had any impact on how she did when she took it again in 11th or 12th grade.
I would say, in most cases, a student will score higher in 11th or 12th grade than in 8th grade. So it might be a disadvantage to use SAT score from 8th grade for college application.
My kids also took it for their summer G/T programs, but those scores were never reported anywhere (even though one s won some sort of award for his math reasoning score).
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