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

[live-momma.livejournal.com]

If you have a specific university in mind, you can google it plus "application deadline". Schools with relatively low competition to get in may not be due until July (I just checked two local schools with July 1 & 15 deadlines), though applying earlier may improve your odds, especially if you're not the cream of the crop. And, if you apply early, you could get accepted before the end of the year. I know I had my acceptance letter before graduation, because it's in the book my mom made to display at my party, even though the deadline was over a month later!

I took the SAT & ACT the summer before my junior year (16 years old). That left the option to retake the summer before senior year if I didn't like my scores.

I was one of the oldest kids in my grade, so I turned 18 in October of senior year. My friend was (I think) the youngest in our class, and she turned 17 in September of that year.