Proceed with caution on "contingent offers"....two kids at my son's high school (different sports) committed to Stanford and an Ivy only to see the offers dropped when grades and test scores were not high enough. I have read that the average increase a kid can realistically do on the ACT is two points. Yes, there are exceptions and we hear about the kid who raised his score five points but don't get into a situation where the increase in score a player needs to get is not going to happen!