<p>I'm currently a Freshman in highschool, and while I have a good GPA (4.0) I want to make sure that I'm not just looking at my grade point average throughout highschool.
Should I start preparing for the SAT and ACT at this age, just to make sure that my score would secure a scholarship for college? </p>
<p>Any insight would be appreciated.</p>
<p>You could start right now, it makes sense.
it’s your freshman year, you probably actually have time this year.
I know kids who have been prepping since 6th grade…</p>
<p>Personally, I would focus more on joining any extracurriculars that interest you, and that you can stay committed to for the rest of your high school career.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s that necessary to prep this early. You can still wait a year. But some people may tell you otherwise.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t start this early. Do something meaningful with your time.</p>
<p>Actually, it’s a good idea. Not like hardcore studying, but maybe take an hour or two during the weekends and get some vocab going or something. I’m a junior and high school right now is so stressful that I don’t even have time anymore (with all my extra curriculars).</p>
<p>I do agree that ECs right now in your freshman and sophomore years are more important though. :)</p>
<p>No, don’t bother. Just take the hardest course load your school offers for freshman and dedicate your time to ECs you love. I’d say the perfect time to start is the summer before your Jr. year. It’s when I started and it seems to have worked out for me. But the earliest I’d recommend you start is maybe after Christmas break your Soph. year. Don’t start earlier. You will wear yourself out and it’ll be torturous four years of high school. Have fun now and start worrying about all this the second-half of soph. year at the earliest. You’ll be fine even if you put it off till the summer before Jr. year which is what I would recommend.</p>
<p>4.0 means nothing unless you’re taking difficult classes, so there is no point of saying you have a 4.0.</p>
<p>Take more difficult classes and wait until atleast the beginning of 10th.</p>
<p>Take a rigorous schedule, with plenty of APs. You should be able to get by on most of the SAT/ACT with stuff you’ve learned this far in your schooling, but some of the Math requires knowledge beyond that of a freshman. Wait a year or so.</p>
<p>Definitely. Start the earliest as possible, the better you would be prepared for the SAT/ACT</p>
<p>I wish I had studied earlier. I completely agree with Yuechen; junior year is so stressful without the added pressure of SATs/ACTs/SAT IIs. I think freshman year is a little year honestly, just focus on taking challenging classes, doing well in them, and also enjoying your time (which should include ECs that you really love). But I would recommend doing some LIGHT studying starting sophomore year. A little over a year would be better than a lot in 2 months, in my opinion. Good luck, and enjoy high-school! :)</p>