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<p>Amother: Welcome back. time flies. I remember your S being in middle school and now he is a junior!..
I gather that, because of the delay, your S took the SAT in October of his 9th grade, right? So these scores will show up on his SAT score report. They are excellent. So one is 760 instead of a perfect 800, but as far as colleges are concerned, a 760 is the same as a 800. It is within range. If at all possible, I would not ask your son to retake. there is always the likelihood that he would do worse!</p>
<p>So please ask the National Merit corporation if he can submit his 9th grade SAT or if he really has to retake. Of course, ordinarily, most students take the SAT after the PSAT (the P standing fof preliminary, preparatory or something like that). But I do not see a requirement that the SAT be taken after the PSAT. With this score, he will surely qualify for NMF as long as he does well on the PSAT, which he should do, gets good recs and write a decent essay.<br>
Has he begun to take SATIIs?</p>