<p>Hi!
I'm going into 10th grade next year, and I was wondering if any of you have taken the SAT in your sophomore year. I really want to get into an Ivy League school and possibly go onto medical school. I had almost all A's last year (one B+ in geometry) and I want to start studying ASAP. </p>
<p>I thought that taking the SAT early would allow me to focus on other things junior year and I hope it would look good on my college app.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you think this is a good idea! Feedback is appreciated a lot!</p>
<p>You can do it for practice (start studying now) but your score probably won’t reflect much compared to when taking it again in a higher grade.</p>
<p>I’m in 10th grade and i’ve taken both the SAT and ACT, but I started to get familiar with the tests back in 8th (ACT more then the SAT, i’m not a fan of the test).</p>
<p>Taking the SAT in soph year isn’t going to make you look any smarter than if you took it in junior/early senior year. </p>
<p>I would suggest looking through the practice tests now, really hitting the books the summer before junior year, and taking the SAT in Oct of junior year.</p>
<p>taking the sat in my sophomore year was the worst mistake of my life. of course, this is a slight cc exageration, but seriously…just wanted to warn you that there’s at least one person out there who really regretted taking it in 10th grade.</p>
<p>I popped my SAT cherry (tehehehe) as a sophomore, but anihilated it a few months later as a junior. </p>
<p>Point? It doesn’t matter. I’m pretty sure all the schools I got into saw my shiny good score and not my craptastic other one. There’s no advantage in scoring high early.</p>
<p>Honestly, taking it sophomore year doesn’t matter to adcoms. I took the ACT sophomore year and did well, but I’m still retaking since that was almost 18 months ago.</p>
<p>More of an ego boost/crusher than anything.</p>
<p>at most, take a real SAT at the end of your sophomore year. You can take the SAT as many times as you want, so if you really want to, you could take it in 10th grade. I would suggest twice junior year(at least a 4 month break in between tests) and once in the fall of senior year.</p>
<p>Princeton Review (in my area, at least) has free events where you can take a Practice SAT (as close to the legit one as possible) and you get your result in the mail in around a week. I imagine it’s good practice. Also, you don’t want to take the real SAT because you really are too young…you don’t know all the vocab you can possibly know. You don’t know all the tricks to solving standardized math problems, and SAT Writing is a beast of its own. Not to mention, CollegeBoard charges a lot of dough $$$ for the SAT.</p>
<p>You can find these Princeton Review free events online.</p>