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Writing can have a very calming and beneficial effect on the person doing the writing.  Reading a book is good, but one learns even more by writing a book.  The activity of writing sharpens the mind and helps improve understanding.  If you are upset about something, try writing about it.  You'll find it makes you feel better afterward.  150 years ago, Americans would spend much of their free time writing letters or diaries.  Writing is a form of mental exercise that has a very positive effect on the person doing the writing.

Writing can have a very calming and beneficial effect on the person doing the writing.  Reading a book is good, but one learns even more by writing a book.  The activity of writing sharpens the mind and helps improve understanding.  If you are upset about something, try writing about it.  You'll find it makes you feel better afterward.  150 years ago, Americans would spend much of their free time writing letters or diaries.  Writing is a form of mental exercise that has a very positive effect on the person doing the writing.

Writing can also have change the world for the better.  "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a famous insight.  Thomas Paine's pamphlet entitled "Common Sense" helped win independence for the American colonies from Great Britain;  Harriet Beach Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped end slavery.  Many of the most influential people in history were writers, starting with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the authors of the four Gospels.

Writing can also have change the world for the better.  "The pen is mightier than the sword" is a famous insight.  Thomas Paine's pamphlet entitled "Common Sense" helped win independence for the American colonies from Great Britain;  Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped end slavery.  Many of the most influential people in history were writers, starting with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the authors of the four Gospels.

Learning to write, and write well, will open more opportunities for you than any other skill.  It is better even than learning how to swim, or ride a bicycle, or fly a plane, or become a good debater, or speak many languages.  Once you develop the talent of good writing, there is almost no limit to what you can achieve, and most jobs and activities become much easier.  While your college classmates or co-workers are struggling with a writing assignment, you'll be finishing it with skill and ease.

Learning to write, and write well, will open more opportunities for you than any other skill.  It is better even than learning how to swim, or ride a bicycle, or fly a plane, or become a good debater, or speak many languages.  Once you develop the talent of good writing, there is almost no limit to what you can achieve, and most jobs and activities become much easier.  While your college classmates or co-workers are struggling with a writing assignment, you'll be finishing it with skill and ease.

SAT 1500 or higher

SAT 1500 or higher

== College score policy ==

== College Policy Towards Repeat Testing ==

The SAT now allows students the option of “score choice.” By choosing this, students have the ability to pick which scores for each test that they want sent to their college. The majority of colleges participate in this program.<ref>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/policy</ref>

"Practice makes perfect."  That aphorism is so true in so many areas of life.  Practice your speeches before you say them and you will do better. Take practice exams before the real one and you will excel. Practice your sports activity or musical instrument and will improve your skills at them.

Abilene Christian University allows you to submit your best scores from all three sections of the SAT.<ref>http://www.acu.edu/admissions/freshmen/info/actsatfaq.html</ref>

The same is true for taking the SAT. Practice before your first exam will help you do better on it. Taking the SAT multiple times will likely give you higher overall scores.

Patrick Henry College:

But that raises a question: how do colleges handle multiple SAT scores from the same student who took it two, three or four times?  Do colleges average the scores, or take the highest set of three scores, or take the highest individual score for each type of exam (critical reading, writing or math)?

Patrick Henry does not specify on their website whether or not they allow this method to be used.

Cornell, Yale, and Stanford require that you send your test scores from every sat test that you take. They evaluate your scores based on all the tests scores that you send in.  

Put yourself in the colleges' shoes.  Colleges want to brag that their student body has high SAT scores.  So they have an incentive to take the highest possible scores from all applicants, so that it improves their own image. Accordingly, most colleges allow and even encourage multiple test-taking of the SAT in order to boost students' scores.

Wheaton College:

The College Board, which offers the SAT, makes money every time a student takes its test, so it encourages multiple test-taking also.  The SAT allows students the option of “score choice,” which enables students to pick and choose which scores for which test they want sent to which college.  Most colleges participate in this program.<ref>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/sat-reasoning/scores/policy</ref>

Wheaton takes the highest of the three scores from all of the SAT's that the prospective student submits.<ref>http://www.wheaton.edu/admissions/UndGrad/applying/admissFAQ.htm#q14</ref>

Houghton College in New York is also very homeschool friendly. They have just recently started taking the highest critical reading and math scores for the SAT.

Here are some specific examples among homeschool-friendly colleges:

James Madison University is another home school friendly school. They request that you send test scores from every SAT that the prospective student takes. However, they do take the highest scores from the reading and math sections.<ref>http://www.jmu.edu/admissions/process/freshman.shtml</ref>

*Abilene Christian University allows you to submit your best scores from all three sections of the SAT.<ref>http://www.acu.edu/admissions/freshmen/info/actsatfaq.html</ref>

*Wheaton College takes the highest of the three scores from all of the SATs that an applying student submits.<ref>http://www.wheaton.edu/admissions/UndGrad/applying/admissFAQ.htm#q14</ref>

Liberty does not specify on their website if the allow students to send multiple test scores in.

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== Importance of Vocabulary ==

== Importance of Vocabulary ==

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