Hello, I'd like some of the wisdom of the group on de-stressing my child regarding SATs. My D is beginning to show signs of stress with 2 weeks of summer left. She has a lot on her plate and the only thing I can think of that she can de-stress about are her upcoming SATs in Oct.
She is rising senior. She just finished her AP summer work (she is taking 5 APs this year). She has just turned her attention to studying for SATs and working on early application essays. Complicating her life at the moment is that she is training for an international athletic competition 3 to 4 hours a day, and will continue to do so until the competition in early November (just when early apps are due). The competition is a world championship event in Spain - so it is a big deal to her.
Her sport (kickboxing) is not a scholarship sport, so there are no colleges beating our door down. So, she has to apply to a bunch of schools like everyone else.
She is in top 10% of her class in a decent public HS. GPA is 4.2 and super-scored SATs are 2030. She has taken them twice without any prep. Interestingly, she took 3 SAT subject tests without preparing and scored 750 - 760 on all of them. She wants to take the SATs again because she has some very high reach schools (Princeton and Brown are her top choices). Her grades and her SAT is low for those schools. Can't do anything about the GPA, so only thing she can work on is the SAT score.
She is beginning to freak out about what her life will be like in 2 weeks when school starts.
What I have done, and what I would like some opinions on, is tell her to work as hard as she can on SAT prep and the early app essays for the next two weeks. Once school starts, I don't want her touching an SAT review book, and just minor editing to her essays. All I want her to do once school starts is her homework and train.
Any other tips to help take the stress down a notch or two? The above helped, but I will need more tools over the coming weeks.
Thanks in advance!
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