<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>My daughter just received her 8th grade SAT scores for the Johns Hopkins Talent search and scored:
660 CR
670 CM
680 Writing</p>
<p>She is in Geometry honors and will take Algebra 2 honors in the fall. Her current Language arts teacher is basically waiting to retire and had not given the students any real challenges this year so I understand the lower CR score. Should we request to keep these scores or just let them be erased? Daughter is 13 and registered for the local high school but plans on transferring ( if she gets in the lottery selection) to the local collegiate high school as a sophomore. They have entrance requirements for the kids to either take the entrance exam (we heard it was fairly easy) or submit their SAT or ACT ( she got 28 in 7th grade). Both her ACT and this current SAT are above the admissions minimum but we are wondering if it would be better to just dump these middle school scores and let her take the entrance exam.</p>
<p>Also her high school will request that honors freshman take the PSAT in the fall. Any advice on that? Should she just skip it? Is it helpful or necessary as a 9th grader?</p>
<p>Thanks all!</p>
<p>There’s no benefit to request they keep the scores, but these bode well for her SAT scores in high school. </p>
<p>If her scores are high enough for the high school admittance, what would be the advantage of her taking the admittance exam? I would guess that it would be easier than the SAT, but IDK.</p>
<p>I would highly recommend that she take advantage of taking the PSAT freshman and sophomore years—for no other reason than the practice of taking the test. </p>
<p>Other: I would recommend that you chill a bit. Make sure that she is able to enjoy high school and participate in ECs that she REALLY wants to do, not just the ones that will “look good”. She’ll have enough pressure as it is…just make sure you aren’t adding to it. I can attest that HYP, etc. are not the be-all, end-all for undergraduate study. Both of my D’s (who took SATs starting in 7th grade), great SATs, etc. agree that they couldn’t have made a better decision than to attend the large public university (OOS) they chose. D1 graduates in May and will be heading to Harvard in the fall for a Ph.D. program…</p>
<p>Hi Astrophysics mom ( funny because that is the career my daughter is interested in!)</p>
<p>Thanks so very much for your reply. It helps so much to hear about others experiences. I completely agree about “chilling a bit”. My daughter is also an athlete and we have talked about not over doing it and to keep time reserved for fun stuff but she is the type of kid who seems to want to “do it all” so we shall see what happens once she enters our local high school and has her first taste of a truly rigorous academic schedule.</p>
<p>The reason we would keep the score(s) would be to use them for entrance to the collegiate high school but I did not understand if that meant they would then become part of her permanent record and all colleges would then see those scores when it came time to apply.</p>
<p>Regarding the Ivies and top schools: we are completely pre-paid for a Florida state school and I think she will be accepted at U of F or FSU or UCF but will probably look at at least a few oos schools depending on her intended major and whether or not she chooses to continue in her track and field.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your D1 and her graduate school acceptance!!</p>
<p>I don’t think her ACT will be purged. The SAT score will go away unless you request in writing to keep it. However, I believe the ACT score is always there - even though it was for a talent search. My ds took it in 7th grade and again in 9th. His 7th grade score was there.</p>
<p>I’m quite sure that middle-school SAT/ACT scores are not considered (if they even are sent–I remember reading somewhere that middle-school SAT scores are taken out of College Board’s active system).</p>
<p>But she should definitely take the PSAT in 9th grade. At most, it’s $20 and a Saturday morning in October. It’s great practice and no matter how poorly you do, there is no negative effect on admissions, since PSAT scores are never distributed to any college.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your replies. </p>
<p>We will probably let this score go away as she won’t be using it for college and we were only considering using is as an entrance exam for a local collegiate high school which only takes students for sophomore year and above. We were happy to see she received the scores she did as a 13 year old but a bit surprised about the Reading vs. language score. She actually received a 10 on the essay and she doesn’t know much about reality shows and has terrible handwriting! Just hope we don’t regret the decision to let the scores get purged but assume she will only improve with “age”!</p>