Haven’t read the posts so probably are repeats:
- Find financial and academic safeties
- Apply early if possible
- If ur kid is a high scorer on std tests than plan on studying for sat or act in summer before jr yr and take test in fall of jr yr.
- Take practice act and practice sat under full timed test taking conditions and based on ur results and feelings, study for just one of the tests. If ur kid is in the PSAT NMSF range, then make the test the sat (in fall$ along with PSAT in fall so only studying once.
- Take practice PSAT in soph yr
- Take sat2 in same yr as the class, so usually ap test in may and sat2 in June of soph or jr yr