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

[libitina]

Oh, and National Merit is a crock as well. Sure, if you score above a certain percentile in the PSATs you are considered a National Merit Finalist. But you don't actually get to consider yourself a winner unless the college that accepts you gives a damn. Both my sister and I went to colleges that did not consider national merit business, so neither of us actually "won" the thing... Sort of.

Basically, the ETS (Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ) is out to screw everyone in the country over with their expensive standardized testing.

Also, Jensen and Jared, if you are going by the actors' calendar birthdates, are different generations for the SAT. Between the times each one would have taken the test, there was a major revamp and formatting change. Let me know if this matters to the story, and I can try to dredge up actual detail from my memory.