<p>The 2400 books are a waste of time. I bought two and ended up not using them.</p>
<p>For my 2400, I just did practice tests. A crapload of practice tests. And I used Kaplan’s and Blue Book. Kaplan’s sucked. I consistently scored about 50 points lower on CR because the questions are very subjective.</p>
<p>Don’t bother with a tutor. And most of the questions, period, are intuitive. Just understanding how grammar works by being able to do it your self should set you to not miss any more than 1 on Writing. And that one is usually an idiom or questionable parallelism problem. </p>
<p>Studying vocab actually helps, but most people emphasize it way too much just because its the easiest to study. I never bothered with roots or anything, because I was also shooting for the 2400 the whole time and didn’t want to leave anything to guesswork.</p>
<p>And I’m glad you’re willing to study all summer, because that’s basically exactly what I did. Practice test every Saturday, every week.</p>
<p>Also, I do think that anyone who can score 2370+ twice is just as good at the SAT as a 2400 (if they just score it once, there’s an equally good chance that they were just having a lucky day themselves). Intellectually, the difference is minimal.</p>
<p>But psychologically it’s huge. When you tell people you got a perfect score on the SAT, no matter who it is, immediately they respect you. High scores, you have to be talking to someone in the know for them to care. Nobody except my friends knew about 2380, which is almost just as good. I had strangers asking me for advice after the 2400. Whenever anyone wants the 2400, I understand exactly why and I say go for it.</p>