I agree to take it often, but honestly not at the OPs age. Start fall soph yr.
Reason 1:
Even if you are in advanced courses as a fresh., you still do not have an academic foundation to do well. It is spending 4 hours in a classroom on a Sat. with the folks paying 55 bucks. Why? You are never going to submit these scores for selection. Go to Amazon, buy an SAT study book for 20 bucks, or less on your kindle and call it a day.
Reason 2:
Everytime you take the SAT and submit the scores to the HS it will appear on your official transcript. They will see that you learned how to test for the test. Yes, they superscore, but 10 tests, if you take 3 a yr, is over kill.
Reason 3:
PSAT will be fall jr yr.
~~~ Taking the SAT in your soph yr, will prepare you for a higher score on the PSAT.
~~~ PSAT is the only way you can become an NMSF. That will give you an EC.
~~~ If you want to go to SLS, they will look at that PSAT.
Reason 4:
BURNOUT
Applying to any SA is a marathon, and if you wrap yourself up into this at 14, by 18, you will be saying I can't spend 1 more Sat taking an SAT/ACT. However, that is when you really should be taking it due to an academic foundation perspective.
Reason 5:
ACT
The AFA will convert the ACT to the SAT, and you will see here that some do better on one compared to the other. If you are taking the SAT 2X a yr from 8th grade, and 2X a yr for the ACT, basically from Sept to May you are taking a test every other month for @4 yrs....see Reason 4.
I am with TheUnderdog.
Financially, it makes no sense at all.
The SAT is only part of the WCS, and the PAR. Honors, and AP are also part of that, if you spend 8th/9th grade studying/taking the SAT and your class grades suffer your PAR will get hurt.
Additionally, since SAT/ACTs are on weekends, you will be unable to strengthen the EC portion of the WCS. Hard to get a job, when you tell them that 1 Sat out of the month you can't work. Hard to be on a team sport if you can't compete or train. Hard to do volunteer hours.
The AFA and AFROTC scholarship selections look at the WHOLE candidate. They don't want just the book smart kid. They want the kid that gets great academics while juggling a rigorous course load with sports, jobs, and volunteering.
JMPO, if you will be a rising freshman this yr, you are still too young to have a job, so instead of taking the SAT next fall, volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, or the Food Shelter on Sats. Try out for a sport. Join clubs in HS and get leadership positions.
Come soph yr you will have a strong PAR, plus you will have ECs. AP classes as a soph will give you the foundation for scoring higher on the SAT.
If you look at the WCS system, you will see those appointed used their time wisely. They are more than just the best in one area.
PS. I have to say, I hate the superscoring system. To me it is watering down the SAT. Back in the 1980/90's, the system was different. It is a system that AFROTC still utilizes. Best sitting. Superscoring allows applicants to have perfect scores, but in reality if you have enough money, you can get close to that score because you know how to take the test. Kids now take it with a plan. Study for one portion to pull the highest grade, next time study for the other portion to pull the highest grade. They do this because if they get a 750M/550CR and the next time they get a 650/720, they now have a 1470 for the AFA. However, for AFROTC they would have a 1390, and worse for them, they have a 650 M.
Dirty little secret applicants don't know when they do the multiples. They are so busy on Plan A, they didn't realize they may have hurt Plan B; AFROTC scholarship.