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Does your D attend a private or public school?
If she attends a private school, please make the sacrifice and pay the $35 so that your daughter can get her program. Owing money and not getting a program is just the tip of the iceberg. With an unpaid balance, the school may be reluctant to send out her transcripts to the college (It would help greatly if she had a copy of her transcript to accurately fill out her college applications).
You have to use a bottoms up approach to make sure that she has some affordable options.
@happymomof1, can you make some recommendation in Maryland where her D has a strong chance of getting merit?
Are there any incentives for people who ultimately want to teach in Maryland? If your daughter knows that she wants to teach and will teach in Maryland, she would be best served attending an affordable public in Maryland, where they an also easily take her through the certification process. Right now she is talking about 2 separate licensing processes; elementary education and art education, is she looking to get certified in both?
She definitely needs to retake SAT to improve her math scores. Many competitive deep pocket schools may also require the SAT II subject test. I would also recommend that your D take the ACT because some students tend to do better on this test.
If her strengths are not with standardized test, she should also check out fairtest.org for the list of SAT optional schools. As others have mentioned, don’t sleep on the Womens college, especially Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith first three are SAT optional, and Barnard (she will have to raise her math score for them).