Jennifer Ledwith

And then you need to talk with them about their goals.

And I know for me as a student, what was helpful for me in terms of pursuing, in terms of being very hungry and driven about my college application process, because I am incredibly persistent.

But one thing is I'm persistent about what I want to be persistent about.

When I was in high school and I was in 12th grade and I was taking calculus, like I just kind of blew it off because in my mind, I was done with high school.

That wasn't the best thing.

It wasn't the best thing to do.

But when it came to my application process, I was incredibly persistent because I knew my goal.

My goal was to go away.

And I knew the only way for me to achieve that, I had to sit and do the things that were required to do that.

And so parents need to talk with, you know, you have them take those practice tests and

You look at the test scores and when you have them take the practice test, explain to them that we're having you take this to have an understanding of where you are.

It's not an indictment or a confirmation of your intelligence.

It's not.

It's kind of like when I go to the doctor's office, I have to step on the scale.

Do I want to step on the scale?

But I have to step on the scale because that is an indicator to help the doctor understand the state of my health.

Same thing here.

We want to know where you are with your tests.

And then when you start, you know, and you say, OK, well, here are the test scores.

And then you talk with the student about his or her goals.