Do most students aiming for selective (meaning non-open-admission) colleges take the SAT and/or ACT in junior or senior year?
Taking them in junior year has the advantage of having the scores in the summer to help assess what colleges are realistic to apply to, and allows for a retry in senior year if desired, but do most students in "ordinary" high schools actually do that these days? "Ordinary" high schools are those where typical percentages of graduates go on to selective colleges, which include the full range of selectivity, not just the top end, as opposed to the academically elite magnet schools, prep schools, public schools in high-parental-education areas, etc. that seem to be the most common here.
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