Sent Child Sick to SATs

^^I hope she’s done!

My daughter had a very similar experience in February. She had drama performances and practices coupled with a very nasty sinus infection that took two different antibiotics and steroids and almost three weeks to get improvement all the while knowing that her ACT was on Saturday! I’m a nurse and her mom and felt doubly horrible at making her “push through”. She packed tissues and with nose dripping on her test and medicated with all she could have to get her through the test and not fall asleep she went, she tested, and she came home depleted! I felt so awful:( Bright side…she scored a 34! Hope springs eternal!

@pink316 Congratulations to your daughter on that score! I am hoping that we are as fortunate when my daughters scores come out later this week or early next. I feel better knowing that others have had to endure the tests and succeeded while sick. At the time I was very conflicted about sending her and feeling like I let the crazy of college admissions take over common sense. I have softened some since and realize that there are many times in life when we get up and get going even when we should be in bed.

Utterly unrelated (although I hope your D did fabulously! :slight_smile: ) - if she’s still feeling off in a day or two, take her to get a mono stat test. My S powered through his senior honors january project presentations, a retreat, Calc B/C tests - had had a really bad sore throat that a urgent care clinic said “not strep” for, but didn’t test further, and it did go away, but he just wasn’t himself. On President’s Day, I took him to a different urgent care clinic and asked for the mono test. “Oh, he doesn’t look like he has mono.”

He has mono. Doing much better now, but he was out of it for about 10 days, just resting and recovering. Neither of us regret everything he did get done, but I’m glad we were able to get a diagnosis and let him take some approved time off. (I’d have sent him to the SAT too, though… )