Eric Karlan

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 157: Eric Karlan on Navigating the College Application Process · 13 May 2019 podcast

I've always emphasized to families, there's lots of ways to get those tests and to get a baseline of both, but it's just important

that you do it in any one of those ways.

I generally say at some point by the end of sophomore year.

So there's a lot of high schools in the country that will offer the PSAT or practice SATs.

in the fall of 10th grade, some will also offer the PACT.

Now, those are tests that, again, are more for practice.

They don't actually get submitted to colleges at all.

But I would say by the end of 10th grade to have a baseline of both, because I'd say the earliest that students do begin any sort of SAT and ACT prep

is the summer between 10th and 11th grade.

Assuming they have all the content and they're ready to take that on, it's a great time to start studying because unlike 11th grade junior year where it's the most rigorous academic year that students have had and there's lots of other commitments and extracurricular activities going on, the summertime is often slower.

And there's never a great time to start preparing and studying for the SAT and ACT.

So it's, as I've joked over the years, it's finding the least worst time to study for it.

And the summer oftentimes presents a great opportunity for students to do that.

It's true.

And actually, what's interesting, I'll throw a question at you.

Do you know what SAT stands for?

So it used to stand for Scholastic Aptitude Test.

And in the 90s, that actually went away because they determined that the SAT wasn't actually measuring aptitude at all.

So believe it or not, the acronym SAT stands for absolutely nothing now.

It's just a branding acronym because it's really a test that tests how well you do on the SAT.

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