I just woke up that day, got in my car, drove down to the high school and took the test. No one would do that now. I mean, if you do, you do it at your own risk. Because the SAT, along with your grade point average, are the two most important criteria that college admissions departments look at. By their own admission, that is what they use to pick their entering freshman class.
Most parents are realistic that their students can perform in a given score range.
Some parents are not realistic and you have to inform them, once you get familiar with the student what that student's score range will probably come out to be, and make some predictions that you hope are valid over the course of a few years. After you've watched a student for a year or two in the Colloquium as a seventh and eighth grade student, or an eighth and ninth grade student, you can ballpark where that student is going to end up if they continue with the training. There is no guarantee. And those companies that offer a guarantee, if you look at it, they're time limited, and you can come back and repeat programs and do things like that. But in the end, everybody knows that you have to apply to college by the fall of your senior year, and all guarantees are over at that point.