SAT and college match

Parents Forum
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<p>Is there some kind of web site where a student can punch in his SAT scores and a range of colleges come up ?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Their college matchmaker tool has other variables as well but you can go straight to the SAT question and enter that in and just search based on that.</p>

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<p>You can try here, but take results with a large grain of salt: <a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/advsearch/match.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/advsearch/match.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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you can go straight to the SAT question and enter that in and just search based on that.

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<p>didn't know that! I will give it a try. Been struggling lately trying to make a list. Son isn't a lot of help. Big U? Small LAC? Top 20? 4th tier? grrrrrrr</p>

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<p>Use the Princeton Review site. The recommendations will be conservative, but the questionaire will give you great questions that your son will need to answer or at least consider.</p>

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<p>the princeton review is weird.. it listed 35 of the top 50 LACs as safeties for me as well as cornell and carnegie mellon.. this is definitely not the case</p>

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<p>The thing about the PR site is not to take the matches seriously - those are probably reaches. Safeties are matches. However,as mardad said, the questions it asks are excellent ones to help students narrow down and just think about what they want from a college.</p>

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<p>I don't often agree with the recommendations of PR, but working the questionnaire with her son may force S to make some decisions about his preferences.</p>