I plan on going to college. After graduating high school, im definitely going to go on tr college d edpuucrsue higheation. So, if youre intending to apply to college, do you know what you want to major in . I hope to major in biology. Perhaps international relations. Become a lawyer. Economics. I plan on going to college for pathology. Id like to major in World Politics or internationalrelati. I really want to major in biopsychology or something in child developmt. Biology, perhaps becoming a doctor. But i also like business, so im pretty undecnt. Ided at this poi i dont know what i want to major in. I still dont know yet. I still like have a lot of interests like literature, science, and theater, and even politics, so i need to figure that out. Thats okay. A lot of students Start College without deciding on their major. But here are two more decisions youll have to make before even applying. Sat or the act . If so, do you know the differences between the two . I don really know. t [ laughs ] i dont know. Now the no, i dont k difference between the actt. And the sa i honestly dont know. I know that they score different, but i dont know all the differences. I dont know the differences between the two tests. And if i have to take the tests to get into the college, i would. But other than that i dont really want to [ chuckles ] youre not alone. Most of us look forward to taking the sat or act with about the same enthusiasm as getting a tooth pulled. But as they say, knowledge is power. So when we return, well tell you what you need to know so that youll have the power to decide which test is best for you. Teen kids news will be right back. Closed captioning is brought when we were asking kids if they knew the difference between the sat and the act, mostth answered like is. No, i dont know the difference between the act and the sat. But then we came across this. Young la the sat is a standardized testing. It was founded in the early1900. A eugenicist was someone who believed you could improve the human population by controlling es are passed on. What gen and the act is a differten type of test that involves the sat. And the sat was then changed to have a 1,600 scale versus the 2,400 scale, which it was in th. Pr wow not sure i got all that, but it sounded like a pretty impressive answer. Anyway, lets turn to the expert to get the downlow. Joining us is rob franek. Hes from the Princeton Review. Hi. Good to be here. Thanks for inviting me. Just so were all on the same page, what is the Princeton Review . The Princeton Review is an education we started a little over 30 years ago to help students master the sat and the act, but over the last 30 years weve been helping students with standardized tests, as well as College Admissions advice, as well as financial aid. During your career, youve worked in College Admissions, as well as a test prep teacher. So you should know. Which is the better test for students to take . Aha. Its an important question, and one that comes up all the time. And the answer is really easy. The beest for you to take is the one that youre going to perform best on. When we think about it, large and small, are going to want to put you in the best light using the sat or the act. The majority of the 4,000 schools that are out there will superset your scores, meaning that youll take the best verbal or math for the sat, or the best four components from the act, and mix them up, to put you, again, in the best light academically for them toider. Whats the diff conserence between the two tests . Well, first the sat and act are the most important standardized tests for the and theyre both interchangeable in that admissions teams will use them in the same way. The sat and the act have lots of similarities and lots of differences. They are roughly about 3 hours a piece. Both of the essay components, the writing components, are optional for students. What weve found is that the act mirrors a high school exam, so most of the questions are very straightforward. For the sat, many of the questions require extra time for theyre asking, and once students master that strategy, then they can do quite well in the sat or the act. Do colleges prefer one test over the other . Its a question, again, that comes up, and the answer is always no. The sat and the act are treated completely equal through the eyes of admissions counselors and admissions committees that are going to be looking at your applications. Okay, but there have been reports recently that more and more colleges are no longer requiring either test. Skip taking these tests completely . It does mean that some students can skip the sat or the act completely, but lets put some numbers around this. The are about 4,000 fouryearer u. S. Alone. D universities in the nearly 900 of those schools are testoptional. But two things to keep in mind. Those schools will not require that you put in your sat or your act scores for academic admission, but many of those schools will ask for your sat and act scores later on when aid, money that you dont have to pay back for school, so they may ask for those sat and act scores again. So when im guiding students i say that although the sat and the act are a chore, they are a navigable chore, but they are a chhey could still beore, and t used in the admissions process even for testoptional schools. All right, so lets say the school i want to apply to requires the sat or act. How can i tell which one is better for me . This is going to sound like a hard answer to get through our head b you should sit for a practice fulllength sat and a practice fulllength act. You can do that on websites, you can do it in oices, you can doff it in any number of ways at home. If you take the fulllength sat and fulllength act and see that you score dramatically better on one or the other, then i would prep for that exam, because remember, theyre treated exactly the same way in the admissions process, but if you know that youre going to do dramatically better on one or the other, i would choose that are only one part of the academic review that admissions counselors are going to go through when they review your application. The first and the most important piece of the College Admissions application is going to be how well you did in high school. Did you challenge yourself with regularlevel courses, advancedlevel courses, aplevel courses, iblevel courses. The second most important thing, and again, for the majority of those 4,000 schools out there, are still going to be the sat are completely navigable and coachable exams. Reat advice. G thanks, rob. Oure welcome. Y good to be here. Believe it or not, but the ancient greeks offered some advice more than 2,000 years ago thats still rather helpful. In the temple dedicated to the god apollo, these words were inscribed know thyself. Guess when it comes to figuring out which test to take, thats pretty good advice. For teen kids news, im amelia. Not in the way that youre using tobacco is really bad for you. In fact, students in arizona just wont stand for it. Scott explains. Teens from the group known as stand against tobacco journeyed tohoenix, the state capital, p to give the government a piece of their mind. They came together for National Kick butts day, a day to raiseae awareness effects tobacco has on thedy. Teenage bo students showed paintings, made posters, and did all kinds of Community Service projects. Its a tar jar. Its basically a years worth of tar from one pack a day of smoking cigarettes. This is how much tar will be in your lung. The plastic box is a bunch of and what were showing is that cigarette butts are a huge problem, especially in parks. Theyre extremely bad for the environment, and people litter them all the time, and so those are some of the butts that we picked up at our local park. Those teens are trying to have Tobacco Products banned from public parks by getting their local government to pass legislation. I think the young people are great. The group i was speaking to in particular has been in front of our city council in my city numerous times to talk about issues, and for them to come up to the legislature, that is spectacular. I think youth involved in the legislative process is fantastic, the fact that they know the process, how it works, and are getting involved in their civic duties as theyre young is gonna lay a Good Foundation for them as they get older, and staying involved in what happens in their area. At lunch, students were able to share personal stories with one another about how tobacco has affected their lives. One thing we know is that kids listen to each other more than they listen to people like peer twe know we can get a l action. Ot of in addition to sharing stories with one another, students got to spend some oneonone time withegislators l and get a behindthescenes look at the state senate ilding. Bu we were able to show them the house of repre thesentatives and state senate, and let them see that its normal folks that are here, and they could potentially be one of those normal folks in the future serving the state of arizona. I think young people can actually make the most change because were so young and werr i feel t t soth patas ssihoonwsat oe. Th people that we really do want to make Something Better in our community and that we do have a voice and that we also have a say in what goes on. And its not just like, oh, this is happening and this is happening. No, were tually being part ofac our society and making an inputt and that were not g let other people make the decisions for us. You know, their voices are just as important as adults and so, i think its really important for kids to get process so that they can effect change thats positive, as they get older and throughout their lives. Students from Red Mountain High School actually built a robot in support of kick butts day. Thats right a robot. Okay, thats straight. Do it. Oh so close this robot here was to promote the prevention smoking tobacco and young teens. So, what is does is, students are asked questions. As you can see the first question is what percent of adult smokers started in their teens or younger. So, different estions likequ that. And youll answer them down the line what you think the correct answer is. And after you answer them youll move right on to throw some frisbees. For every question a student got right, they were able to shoot a frisbee at certain cheers and applause ][ they load it inside the hopper, and theyre able to control the robot going back and forth. They can either make an easy shot in the low, or they can try a little bit more of a challenge and aim higher. Uaranteed to go so, its not g in, but its a lot of fun for the kids. If that isnt amazing enoughs built entirely by kids. The most challenging part would have to be shooting, because it shoots every so often and sometimes it even shoots two frisbees, and so aiming it and shooting it correctly is really hard. If youre interested in helping your town or neighborhood to kick some butt, you can find out more information at kickbuttsday. Org. For teen kids news, im scott. Next, ill tell you about some of the things you need to know before you go looking for a parttime job. Teen kids news will be right studying can sometimes be stressful. And we can all use advice to help us strive for success. So heres christin with this weeks make the grade. While no one will argue that doing well in school is our first priority, many teens want or need to make a little extra money in their spare time. But you have to do some work before you start working. That means you need to find out how many hours the government allows you to work. There are lots of legal restrictions. And many states require students under 18 to obtain working papers. You can find out what you needog to know by g to your States Department of labor website. Of course, you can also get some good guidance from your School Guidance counselor. But remember, if youre already having a hard time keeping up at school, the best kind of work for you is probably your school work. Im christin helping you to Northern Ohio borders part of lake erie. So when it comes to protecting their fish, ohioans dont kid around. At least i dont think they kid around. After all, they passed a law making it illegal to get a fish drunk. Even if the fish is over 21. Guess in ohio you can lead a fish to water, but you cant make it drink. Alcohol. And i think thats a fin i mean fine thing. Its time for another important message, brought to you by the National Road safety foundation. This is kati. D im well, u an know who i li am. Fes going great for kati. Class president , captain of her soccer team, and just aced her sats, and she loves to text. But i know something she see that intersectio a car will be goinn . G through it ill give her today. But tomorrow, who knows . Coming up next, how to be a while many of us like to bake, for some of us, it doesnt come easy. Until now that is. Katie explains. Sales . Ts the history of bake well, katie, ke sales haveba been around since the 1950s. As a matter of fact, the first bake sales were done in schools. As fundr so, i want to make a pie for a bake sale, but im not an experienced baker. What do you suggest . Well, i suggest starting out with a nobake pie. Theyre really easy to make. I think we should go ahead and make a banana cream today. Okay, thats what were set up so, here is a cr for. Eam filling, okay, that we are ing to addgo some milk to. And thats going to give us that cream base. Stir it up . Yeah, give it a nice stir. Okay. We really want to incorporate that together. And its gonna get thick as you stir it. So itll get all creamy . Its gonna get nice and creamy. Okay. And how much milk do we have to add . We added 1 1 3 cup. And some people have some sensitivity to milk, so you could use soy milk, you could also use almond milk. Okay. Is that mixed . I would probably mix it up just a little bit more. Were gonna just want that thicker. Really thick, like creamy. Almost pudding thick, yeah. Okay. And you should only use a whisk for that . A whisk is great or if you have a mixer, a mixer works just as well. Okay. Okay, thats looking good. Is that thick . That looks fantastic. As it just sits. All right, so, lets just set this off to the side. Weve already cut up some bananas. Were just gonna finish it up, so well have a total of three bananas in our pie. So if you want to go ahead and finish thi that would bes, great. And add it to the re of ourst bananas. Should i use the ends . Yeah, absolutely. All right. Add that in. So they should be pretty thin . Just uniform. That looks perfect. Okay. Okay, so whats next . Okay,t were so, now wha gonna do is were gonna add our bananas to our cream filng. Li okay. And how do we mix it up . With a spoon. Okay. So its not stirring exactly, but more like folding it over . And this is gonna set up, too, in the refrigerator. Okay. That looks fantastic. So im going to just transfer our cream filling banana mix into our pie. What kind of crust is that . This is a graham cracker. Pie crust. All right. Now, what ive done ahead of time is i have whipped up some whipped cream. Okay, this is gonna go right on top. Okay. So, what were gonna do let me just finish this off. All this gets right on top. Oh, it looks tasty. I like to put it right in the center, and this way we can spread it. About trying to get to the ends quite yet. I like to pick it up. Have to but you dont a real good view of what im doing at this angle. And just spread this all around. Do you have to go all the way to the edge i think it has a nice appearance if you do. You know, just get it real close. Okay. An. As you c all right. And give it a nice little swirl. Were going to do is add a little bit of chocolate. Mmm. And im just gonna give it a stir. And were going drizzle itto right on top, so be patient as it kind of starts to drizzle and then were gonna start to move it. Okay. Okay. Ooh. That makes it look so pretty. And that did not take long here we go. Put it in the refrigerator and we are done. That is how easy it is to make an a pie. D its a nobake pie. Mmm. And you can make this pie from a kit . From a kit. They are elizabeth jeans pie kits. Everything but the fruit is included to make this delicious pie. So you get your crust, cream filling, whipped topping, and make baking as easy as well, as easy as pie. For teen kids news, im katie. Thats our show for this week. But be sure to tune in again next week for more teen kids news. S my bg en i d using th r gh sch esd my falyould br f thout male announcer rock the park is sponsored by subaru. [upbeat rock music] . . Today on rock the park. Wow, is it beautiful out here. Holy cow. Were exploring the most extreme landscapes in america. Were gonna weave our way through a huge minefield of crevasses. Were braving the elements. My heart is starting to pound. Plenty of obstacles. Ooh you all right . And checking out some of the oldest spots on earth, and some of the newest. Were really inside the caldera of a volcano. And it all starts right now