Her testing center closed 3 times in a row?! My goodness I’ll be crossing my fingers for you this weekend.
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At least the dresses for prom tend to be long. For Homecoming they are shockingly short. We found a dress while on vacation in Florida. She figured there was far less likelihood of a classmate getting the same one. It has the big slit and revealing neck line of course.
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Two different testing centers but yes. We tried a different strategy this time and registered about an hour away. Fingers crossed!
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My D is waiting to go senior year, buy my guess is she’ll want to wear a pantsuit or something like that.
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Yes! GOOD LUCK!
SAT date on Saturday for both my 2025 kiddos, first test for both… I have a feeling it will be one and done for my steph-daughter and for my son it will be the first with a likely second test in May (and maybe August too lol!). Both have been prep/tutoring, test is super important for D25 as she is generally high stats and aiming for many highly-selective schools, some that require test score. For S25, test is important to level-set where he is at, and hopefully have a score that might be helpful for those target/reach schools…but we shall see. It’s been interesting to have two kids going through the process and meeting them where they are at!
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I hope things go well for her. My D hasn’t had much time to prep since PSAT either. And she is super busy at the moment. Mock Trial over laps with soccer for about 4 weeks so it’s really hard on her. I think June will be the next one she’d be able to take if she needs a retake. I don’t want to wait all the way til August because she’s hoping to get applications in before the results would come in!
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love the pantsuit look!
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Good luck to your daughter! Thankfully I think with test optional at so many fantastic schools, it just doesn’t hold the same importance as “back in my day” 
Finding the time to prep is a real challenge for all these kids with the workload for classes, extracurricular/sports, jobs, socializing, all the normal teenage stuff.
My two cents is the August test date isn’t too late! I only mentioned August because the June test date falls on the exact move-out day/end of term for our kids at boarding school, so it just isn’t logistically possible to finish finals etc and take SAT- so don’t count out that June date if you aren’t in the same boat we find ourselves 
Brown announced today that they will be requiring scores for our kiddos.
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I see you. We are living and breathing robotics at our house right now. I would love to say that we’re finished with the SAT. Good luck to your daughter!
D25 has the SAT on Saturday, which I mentioned previously we will have to travel for. But I am hoping this is his final attempt. He’s taken a couple of practice tests and is just below where he’s hoping to score on the real thing. Crossing my fingers for him!
We’re looking forward to our Indiana/Chicago college tour next week. I’m most excited to see Rose-Hulman, as S25 was just admitted to their Operation Catapult program this summer. I think the schools sound like a great fit for him.
No prom attendance here! (So no questionable dress issues to contend with!)
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I hope our unseasonably warm weather in IL greets you when you come.
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Of course D25 woke up with a sore throat today. Seems to always happen this exact week every year since she started high school. Of course it’s sport picture day and the SAT are on Saturday. UGH!
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My son is taking it. He hasn’t studied 
. But there is no school Friday so he says he will do Kahn Academy then.
2 days away and no studying has been happening this week. She can’t even get her normal homework done. She finally got her AP calc homework done yesterday that was due on Monday. She had a mock trial competition on Tuesday that lasted until 9pm. Physics test and APUSH and AP lang papers due today (not even started yet) and a 1920’s party in APUSH tomorrow that she needs to find props for and develop her character.
After next weekend Mock will be over and soccer will be her only big extra time commitment. I guess studying for the AP exams will begin in earnest soon too. Sigh.
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D25 takes ACT next week. I got her some ACT review flip cards from the library. She is super sick this week to the point she even willingly stayed home from dance practice which she never does.
And she decided she is dropping one of her dance teams next year. She wants to have more time with friends, get her GPA up, and actually have time to visit colleges.
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The SAT went ok my D thinks. She said she is willing to retake it if she doesn’t get a decent score for the colleges she’s interested in. She did complain about not remembering anything from algebra 1 from 8th grade COVID homeschool with her and my husband crying over YouTube videos 10pm after he’s home from work. Plus the teacher withholding class notes because the kids are having a hard time understanding. I’m not sure how not giving them extra notes was going to help them learn, my husband was on a first name basis with this guy by the end of the year. She also needs to learn when to use a semi colon as well. At least there’s no triggered memories from whenever that was covered in school. The school told her 2 weeks for the scores.
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My kid had virtual geometry our Covid year and also feels the hole when testing. Never once met the teacher in person, it was 100% virtual. The district explicitly told us they were dumbing down the curriculum that year with a goal of teaching 70% of the “normal” curriculum. 
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This sounds like something that would come out of my kid’s mouth!
FWIW, I have to eat crow complaining about my kid never prepping. To this day, my child has still not completed one full practice test at home, ever (other than the one practice digital psat.) No tutoring, no prep class, not even Khan. Still scored high enough to apply anywhere. I guess all that learning in regular high school translates to testing readiness.
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Good to know if will be only 2 weeks. I think the PSAT was still almost a month!
My daughter was homeschooled until high school so we didn’t have any learning loss at all which was really convenient. “Easy” math is what D25 always forgets too. You’d think they’d remember since math builds but I guess not.
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