为什么10年级的SAT成绩不被认可？

Q1：为什么10年级的SAT成绩不被认可？

并不是不认可，而是招生官会更偏向采用11年级的分数作为重要参考依据，因为他们需要考察的是申请时刻学生的学术水平。虽然大部分学校没有硬性说不收10年级的成绩，但会“鼓励”大家提交11年级的成绩，比如卡内基梅隆大学是这样说的：

We believe that college admission testing in the 9th and 10th grades adds to the anxiety of a process that students won’t encounter for several years. As a result, we encourage students to submit 11th or 12th grade SAT or ACT scores. While earlier tests may measure knowledge at the time they are taken, that level of knowledge gradually evolves and doesn’t fully represent the knowledge students bring to college first-year courses. Should students present tests taken two or more years in advance of their first-year experience, we'd take the timing of the test results into consideration. The greater the amount of time prior to students' first year of college, the less we can rely on the test results as a fair representation of their knowledge entering Carnegie Mellon.

但这并不代表同学们要等到11年级才开始考试，SAT是个长线规划，很少有人能一次出分，因此建议同学们提前备考，10年级就开始实战考试，最终在11年级春季出分。