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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: WHEN SHOULD YOU TAKE THE SAT OR ACT?
Description: Once you decide whether you'll take the SAT or ACT for college admissions and scholarship purposes (you probably should), you'll need to make critical decisions about timelines for prep and testing. Amy and Mike invited educator Jim Reinish to answer the age-old question: "When should you take the SAT or ACT?" What are five things you will learn in this episode? When should high schoolers plan to prep for and take the SAT and/or ACT? How do current testing timelines differ from the old testing paradigm? What academic considerations influence testing timelines? What scheduling challenges...