Originally Posted by bluemagic
Where I live (not in Bay Area) many of the kids that take the hardest classes at H.S. spend the summer taking intense SAT prep all summer long. Elite - 5 hrs a day plus homework for 8 weeks and this is only for those who already score in the top 5% on a pretest.
The SAT tests middle school math. The best students should not be needing intense SAT math prep in the summer before 12th grade, and nothing I've seen indicates that intense prep works for SAT verbal or writing.