"BIG SCORE: When Mom Takes the SATs" by Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker, March 3, 2014)

<p>This article of a mom-aged publisher taking the SATs (and various prep strategies) to model for her kids made me laugh out loud a few times. Other parts were depressing…particularly the fact that all of this work did not have its intended effect of motivating her son for studying for the SATs. </p>

<p>"Three decades later, she’s proposing to loft herself into the upper reaches of the ninety-ninth percentile. (Stier can never quite figure out why there isn’t a hundredth percentile.) " This may explain why Stier can only manage a 530 in math :)</p>

<p>Final highest writing score after multiple SATs as 800. I was happy to see her be able to score an 800 here since she is a publisher :)</p>