Test optional or not, test scores can have a huge impact on the academic courses available to students in their first semesters of college.
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What do provisional admissions mean, and what can students do to make their provisional admission permanent?
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Many colleges and universities have stepped up to help answer the call for loan forgiveness and/or merciful financial assistance for undergraduates.
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With life settling back into a regular routine and students back in classrooms and test centers, are students still benefiting from colleges adhering to their test-optional policies?
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National College Decision Day—May 1st of every year—is typically a day that college-bound students celebrate with a formal college acceptance. But what happens if those college-bound students miss the deadline?
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Has discarding standardized test scores made any significant difference in diversifying student populations? Not really.
MIT’s standardized testing policy reversal in addition to the continuation of grade inflation and high records of college applications mean that students need to be taking the ACT® and SAT® seriously.
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What it means to get waitlisted, how you can help your students navigate waitlist offers, and what students can do to increase their odds of getting off of the waitlist.
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Rejection hurts. Full stop. No matter how prepared a student is to receive that thin envelope with the denial inside, it’s nearly impossible to avoid the sting that comes with it.
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Standardized tests - like the ACT® and SAT® - mean more to high schools and colleges than just the obvious…
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Help students take control of their high school education and make the course selections colleges are looking for.
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There are significant differences between applying through Early Decision and Regular Decision, but is there a difference between the two when it comes to the importance of test scores?
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While many colleges remain “test optional,” top-tier applicants continue to choose a “test optimal” strategy.
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Harvard's decision to continue its foray into test-optional admissions is as much about helping out the institution as it is about helping prospective students.
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Gap-year students are ready to begin preparing for their academic futures - are you ready to help them?
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What happens if you, the test-prep professional, are faced with an ethical dilemma such as “helping” a client artificially inflate their college application?
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The streamlining of admission application processing means students are not getting a fair chance to be properly assessed during their application reviews.
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Students applying to any of their reach schools must be reasonable in their considerations, but you can help them have their best chance of acceptance.
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