<p>First, again, thanks so much to all for the advice, which has pretty much unanimous that kiddo should take ACT. I can not put into words how much I appreciate the support, advice, and well wishes. TxArtemis, kid’s non-essay writing portion equates to 700 so they’re fine with SAT score but thanks for the input. Himom, we know a full tuition is unlikely at USC. kid still plans to put their name in the hat though to see what happens. it looks like from the posts on CC that the full schol kids are truly all amazing kids!!! Mine is a good kid, bright, personable, some EC’s, pursued their interests, etc but does not have the super star stats or EC’s of the full schol kids. Sadly, we will likely decide USC is out of reach financially for us but we are truly grateful kiddo has lots of open doors. Don’t know if any other parents had the sticker shock in a good way with the PSAT’s. We knew kid would do well on them and SAT’s but had no idea they would be in the 99th percentile on PSAT’s and not too far behind on SAT’s. This is opening up a lot of scholarship doors regardless of NM status in September and although it has made the college search more complex, this is a good problem to have.</p>