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The median-range Composite ACT scores for Penn and Cornell are 30-34 and for Princeton 31-35. If you are a first-generation-to-college applicant and/or come from a disadvantaged or highly unusual background, admission officials will give you some wiggle room when it comes to test scores. The admission officers will also be looking for some other distinctions besides your academic record. Typically, leadership in school organizations doesn’t stand out much at the top universities.
The majority of successful Ivy applicants submit more than the two required Subject Tests, with most of their scores well into the 700s. You can also re-take your tests if you are not happy with your current scores.
More...Here are 2 links to help parents to search for the colleges that best-fit their child, and the the scholarships that can be available to help their child get into these colleges:
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_search/
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/scholarship-search/
Do you care if your child will be successful in her/his future? You can find out by doing a simple psychology test called "marshmallow test":
Offer your child, empty of other distractions, a treat of their choice (Oreo cookie, marshmallow, or pretzel stick). The children can eat the marshmallow, but if they wait for fifteen minutes without giving in to the temptation, they can be rewarded with a second marshmallow.
If your child will eat the marshmallow immediately, then your child lacks self-control and this may indicate that she/he may need some training to improve self-control. Otherwise if your child can refrain from eating the mashmallow immediately in order to get the 2nd mashmmallow, then congratulations! Your child may be very successful in her/his future like getting a high SAT score.
Walter Mischel had shown that the child's belief that the promised delayed rewards would actually be delivered is an important determinant of the choice to delay, but his later experiments did not take this factor into account or control for individual variation in beliefs about reliability when reporting correlations with life successes.
This “Marshmallow Test” to assess your child's future success, was a study originally conducted by Walter Mischel and Ebbe B. Ebbesen at Stanford University in 1970. In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass index (BMI), and other life measures.
So do you want to know if your child will be successful? I bet you do. So give her a "marshmallow test" to find out.
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More...Homesweet Learning has developed 2 chess game resources for you:
If you need help improving your chess skills, you can simply register with our Chess Mentor programs at different levels from beginner to intermediate to advanced.
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