11th grade DS is planning on majoring in clarinet (probably performance, but that's still up in the air). He took the SAT in 10th grade without a ton of prep (a few minutes of khan a couple times a week for awhile) and got a 1400. Our plan was that he would spend some time on test prep over this past summer and take it again this fall, probably get the score up at least a little, and likely call it done. The summer and fall, of course, wound up being different than we'd foreseen, so that didn't happen. Now I'm wondering whether he should bother putting much effort into prepping for a retake after all. Is his time better spent elsewhere? Right now he's looking at a couple of in-state public schools (where his 1400 would be plenty high) and places like Bard, Oberlin, Lawrence....possibly Vanderbilt, although they seem to have lost their clarinet prof, so not sure what's going on there...probably not any stand alone conservatories. I'll probably have him take the SAT one more time at least in the spring just because he's had more math since last time he took it so it seems fairly likely his math score would be higher. But how much effort does it make sense for him to put into test prep? Is the difference between a 1400 and a 1450 or 1500 going to make a big difference for admissions or scholarships for music programs? He's homeschooled, if that makes any difference (test scores tend to matter more for homeschooled kids, but I don't know if that's still true for music programs)
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