Tomorrow night, Fabrice Charles is planning to go to bed early, so he can get a good night’s sleep. He’s got a big day on Saturday, when he’ll join hundreds of thousands of other students taking the new summer SAT.
“I get stressed really easily,” he says, “so I’ve just got to relax and think back to my exercises.”
For the first time since the 1970s, the College Board is offering an August SAT testing date and the rising high school senior in Boston says he’s ready.
The test will come a full six weeks before the October test (traditionally the first time in the school year students could take it). This marks a welcome change for seniors who want to take the test one last time before application season, or who want to apply early to college. It may also help younger students who don’t want to take the test in the midst of a heavy junior-year workload.
The idea of a summer date bubbled up in 2012, when the College Board launched a small pilot program where students could take the SAT at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Students paid a whopping $4,500 for the summer enrichment program and the test cost. There was outrage, and the College Board ultimately canceled the program. To read more from ELISSA NADWORNY, click here.