Advertisement Continue reading the main storyI realized that they didn’t just want to score exceptionally well on the SAT. The majority of low- and middle-income 11th graders I know in Michigan didn’t even sit for the preliminary exams. If I lost the ZIP code lottery growing up in tap-water-crisis Flint, my new friends had won the neighborhood Powerball jackpot. So the following fall, when I posted a so-so SAT score, I went into Super-ZIP-kid mode. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyI couldn’t afford a $3,000 40-hour prep course or tutor.

Source: New York Times April 10, 2017 07:18 UTC