At Compass, we guide our families forward by working backward. Spring is when most of our long term planning conversations with sophomores begin, as their actions over the next 18…
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What’s a good score? is the most commonly asked question when it comes to the digital PSAT and SAT. There are multiple ways of giving context to your score –…
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On October 24th, November 7th, and November 14th, College Board will release digital PSAT scores to students. Compass has created The PSAT Counselor Toolkit to help counselors make the most…
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Over the past few years, efforts have been made to encourage more colleges to accept self-reported SAT and ACT scores from students during the application process and only require official…
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It’s the second year of College Board’s digital, adaptive PSAT/NMSQT! This article answers your frequently asked questions about the test. What is the PSAT/NMSQT? The PSAT is intended to serve…
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Just before a high-stakes performance, we enter a moment—usually quiet, sometimes a little tense—between preparation and decisive action. Runners toe the starting blocks. Actors find their marks. Test-takers settle into…
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When your testing brand is about staying solid and unchanged, how do you reinvent yourself? That question has weighed heavily on ACT executives in recent years. On July 15th, CEO…
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This year several prominent schools made headlines for reinstating testing requirements. Brown, Caltech, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale joined Georgetown and MIT on a list of popular private institutions…
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Last week, Compass hosted over 200 California college counselors for a series of lunch-and-learn symposia focused on the rapidly changing trends in college admission testing. The first event happened to…
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Will June ACT takers be in for a surprise? Paper-and-pencil test takers will see the traditional exam in June 2024. Students opting to take the test on the computer, however,…
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