SAT/ACT Testing

Throughout North America, schools are facing budget cuts that could increase classroom sizes and eliminate popular school programs, such as individualized college counseling. Thus, leaving parents to foot the bill. Families today are, on average, spending more than $1,000 on college preparatory books, materials and academic services for each student applying to college. Sylvan Learning is helping to soften the financial blow to parents – and school districts - through their ongoing national effort to partner with schools to provide SAT/ACT practice tests and free improvement sessions.

Today’s high school students are submitting, on average, seven to nine college applications, a marked increase from the two to four applications submitted just 10 years ago. This fact, coupled with the reality that a person with a college degree earns over 70 percent more than someone without one, raises the stakes in the college prep environment. It is in a family’s best interest to be strategic in their planning and engage teenagers in fun, academic activities that promote a lifelong love of learning.

The planning for college, though, starts far before students reach their Junior years-- Students should begin charting their course towards college as early as eighth grade.
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