Harvard Hopeful

smileygerl
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:57:03 +0000

Perazziman,

I don’t recall if she did. I unfortunately did not know what these tests were. My father was born in Puerto Rico and came to the mainland as a child. He did not graduate high school. I grew up poor. My children are first generation students. It was important to me that my children do well in school. When they reached high school is when I realized the importance of standardized test scores. I did a lot of reading on the internet and went to the book store to learn as much as I could about the college admission process. I did not know that subject tests were required by the elite colleges so my son had to take MathI, MathII, and Chem at the end of his junior year. Thankfully, he scored well.