<p>Additionally, if he takes a creative nonfiction class, most college app essays are written in that style so he may even generate some ideas for his essay or even generate a college app essay or 2 from the class.</p>
<p>Lastly, for his 7 on sat essay score, writing is “weighted” the least on the sat. however if he wants to retake it, there is this great thread on the SAT prep section on cc called " how to write a 12 essay in 10 days". Also there is another thread which lists the past essay questions. Alternately, we hired a tutor from an sat prep place called elite and the tutor spent 2 hrs (1 hr over 2 sessions) doing prep and practice for the essay portion. The reason we did the tutor, is because there is no way to know what the score would have been on practice essays.</p>