Jake! Yoohoo! Don't miss this post. I talk about you.

Ok, first off, I have a mini-brag. Jake missed out on the sat's last spring because he had mono. So we paid our penalty fee and rescheduled for September. And December, because they say it's good to take it more than once. We got the September scores and they were pretty good. The site tells you the average number of additional points kids with your particular score are likely to get with a second test. Jake's was around nine additional points per section (three sections). So we got the December scores and Jake scored 150 points higher! Go, Jake! Of course, this makes me wonder whether he slept through the first one.

The scores were actually available a couple of weeks ago and recently the essay details were made available and we were able to actually see the essay that Jake wrote. Jake argued his side with examples from Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and Joe Strummer. :sigh: I'm not sure whether to be worried or proud that he can incorporate his music into damn near everything.

Oh, and his application essay for the second college includes a bit about his decision to learn how to knit. My boy.