How far is too far?

ItsNotHogwarts
Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:12:50 +0000

@ThacherParent: Thank you!! I’m checking this video out now! Great to know that I’ll have some parent support. We are going to have to truly nail down a few extra schools in the next week. We’re already late to the game. Taking SSATs on December 7th. I’m not too worried because he took the Middle lever last year for a local school that we ended not applying too. He went in completely cold, no prep and scored between 75-80% on each. Not the level of many on here, but well above the average of the two schools we’ve been considering. We’ve also been studying vocab words, doing practice exams, a couple sections a week since late August and he’s scoring mostly in the 80s for his percentile based on the chart in the SSAT prep. We also got some accommodations set up just in case. Key board for writing portion of the exam, marking answers in the booklet, and extra, though I never give him extra at home for practicing. I don’t want him to use and he probably won’t because it’s only going to wear him down more for the last sections. Meds will be worn off and all of that.

I’ve never even been to California. Can’t imagine sending my kid that far, but he would be all for it, I’m sure. He loves getting the chance to travel and see new things.