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To: taxcontrol

Kaplan and/or Princeton Review.

Please ignore all the a-holes questioning why your son even wants to go to college or insisting that a good study guide is all that is needed to do well. Some people have to go to college to achieve certain career goals — law, medicine, engineering, teaching, barista. And some people learn better with an inactive course, as opposed to staring at a book. I took review courses for the SAT and LSAT back in the mid-70’s to early 80’s and I have absolutely no doubt that they improved my score. At the very least, I learned test-taking techniques and took practice exams under test conditions that helped develop my test-taking skills.


61 posted on 06/06/2017 8:51:31 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos

Thanks, I have learned to ignore the nay sayers.

My oldest daughter has mild Aspergers and has been told many times that she will not succeed in life (even by her GS leader). In 3rd grade, she was failing “Everyday Math” with a 30 F. She graduated HS with a 3.5 GPA. Currently, She is in her last semester of her associates and will transfer to one of the top schools in the US for wild life biology which is her passion. Not it has not been easy, but hard work can make up for a lot of ability.

Likewise, my son is one of the top musicians for saxophone and guitar and has already exceeded any HS level education in those areas. We have to pay for private tutors for him to learn anything. When he gets a fire under him, he can outperform just about everyone in his class regardless of the topic. He has only recently lit the fire for college so we will see where it takes him.

Thanks again for the support


62 posted on 06/06/2017 9:02:45 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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