Text Box: In economic times like these, you need to assume your child needs a higher SAT score! Don’t wait to find out if there’s a problem! By then, it might be too late to fix it! Improving your child’s SAT score is a simple matter of putting him or her into the right program. I believe that there is no better company out there than Carolina College Prep for improving SAT scores. Our average score improvement is between 100 and 190 points per student in our Private SAT Course, and we guarantee that your child’s score will improve. In fact, we’ll refund your money if your child’s score doesn’t improve after taking our course (see Score Increase Guarantee link). Another feature our Private SAT Course offers is the ability to retake the course an unlimited number of times to maximize your child’s score improvement (without having to pay any additional money). We call this the Unlimited FREE Course Retake Provision, and it is a key component in our ability to put significant points on your child’s SAT score. Our course is also inexpensive relative to other providers who charge upwards of $850 or more. Our course is only $395, and the decision to purchase our course will be a good one as one of the easiest ways to increase your child’s college scholarship offer is to increase his SAT score. For the best understanding of what we do, how we do it, and why it works, click all of the buttons in the Navigation Bar on the Left. Make sure you read Why Our Course Works - as this article attempts to explain the differences between our course, and the courses offered by the competition. Please read all of our Testimonials, and our FAQ section! You can deduct $100 off the retail price of the reading course when the purchase is “Bundled” with another purchase. See Bundled Discounts. Extended Reasoning for Enrolling In Our SAT Prep Course: As near as I can calculate, there has never been a more important time to make sure your child’s SAT score is as high as possible. Here’s how I arrived at that conclusion. First off, the economy is lousy. Your investments - that were once allocated for college expenses - were probably “halved,” and will not cover nearly the college expenses they would have covered just 18 months ago. Secondly, colleges are increasing their attendance costs at outrageous rates. In fact, since the Lottery funded SC Life Scholarship was put in place, SC colleges have raised their cost of attendance by over 39% on average - while inflation has been nearly flat over the same time frame. While these colleges have blamed their cost increases state budget cuts, it’s appears to be a simple “money grab” to many objective people close to the situation. Regardless of who is to blame, the result of these cost increases is clear. Clemson is now the most expensive publically funded school in the entire south, and USC is 4th on that same list. As a state, South Carolina now boasts one of the most expensive in state college tuition averages in the South as well. Finally, admissions standards are getting higher and higher. Clemson has all but stopped admitting students that fail to qualify for the Life Scholarship, and many SC Life Scholarship recipients have failed to win admission to Clemson. While not as strict as Clemson, the University of South Carolina is also getting more and more difficult on the admissions front. Nearly every college admissions department in the country puts greater emphasis on the SAT score than the GPA, and/ or class rank (and for good reasons that we can’t go into here) - so a good SAT score is a must. These conditions add up to a climate in which SAT scores are more important than ever. Since most schools use the SAT score to gauge a student’s admission’s potential and his scholarship awards (including and in addition to the SC Life Scholarship and Palmetto Fellows Grant), your student’s SAT score needs to be as high as absolutely possible.

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SC Life Scholarship Qualification Standards

 

To qualify for the $5,000 annual SC Life Scholarship, a student must pass two of the following three tests:

  a) have an 1100 on the Math & Critical Reading Sections of the SAT (do not count the Writing Section in this total).

  b) have a cumulative core GPA of at least a 3.0.

  c) be ranked in the top 33% of their class (in the final tabulation).

 

Keep in mind that you can lose the SC Life scholarship if you fail to make satisfactory progress toward your degree, or fail to maintain a 3.0 or higher GPA in college.  The reverse is also true.  Students can gain the Life Scholarship in your sophomore year (although they did not have it in their freshman year) by making satisfactory progress in their degree program, and maintaining a 3.0 GPA or higher.