Questions for my Amerifriends...

[kellifer]

I swear these aren't for my SPN/HP story that I'm not writing because I have dozens of other things I should be writing.

*looks shifty*

So:

What age do you (approximately):-
- sit your SATs
- Apply for college
- Get accepted for college
- Are a senior in high school

I'm not really sure because in Australia people can be a year older/younger depending on when they started school and I also started thinking that maybe you guys get all your college stuff before you finish your senior year unlike us who apply after we get our results and then apply to Uni. I was always a little confused because it seemed like people had their college acceptances and were still going to classes?

ETA: Wow - you are all very awesome. I'm going to mem this as a reference for US school stuff because there is a *LOT* of info here.

Comments

[embroiderama]

The typical age to take SATs would be 17, but it could be 16-18. Apply to college and get accepted and senior year would be 17-18. It can depend a lot on when your birthday is and things like that. For example, kids born in the autumn sometimes start kindergarten when they're not quite five, but sometimes they wait until they're nearly six. So, I was 16-17 when I took SATs (I took it a few times.), 16, just barely 17 when I applied for colleges, 17 when I got my acceptance.

But yeah, you generally send in your applications during the first half of your senior year of high school and hear from colleges in the late winter to early spring.