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If your GPA is bad, a tutor will help far more with GPA than test prep will help with your SAT and cost far more.
School project, if you live in a household where one parent doesn't have to work, they can basically do your whole project moving a 50 to a 95.
Extra curriculars, these require a large investment of time and money that is harder for a single working parent to pull off.
College entrance essays. You can literally just pay someone to write them.
You can't look at SATs in a vacuum. You have to compare it to the other possible metrics which all privilege the privileged more.
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If your GPA is bad, a tutor will help far more with GPA than test prep will help with your SAT and cost far more.
School project, if you live in a household where one parent doesn't have to work, they can basically do your whole project moving a 50 to a 95.
Extra curriculars, these require a large investment of time and money that is harder for a single working parent to pull off.
College entrance essays. You can literally just pay someone to write them.
You can't look at SATs in a vacuum. You have to compare it to the other possible metrics which all privilege the privileged more.