A little advanced planning can go a long way when it comes to admission testing. One of the first steps in designing the most effective test prep plan is to…
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Amid wide-scale test cancellations in 2020, most colleges in the U.S. chose to go test optional during the initial wave of COVID-19. Although some schools announced that the policy change would…
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Compass Co-Founder Adam Ingersoll discusses this topic with Eric Furda, Senior Associate Director of College Counseling at William Penn Charter High School (PA) and former Dean of Admissions at UPenn,…
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The New ACT Compass Co-Founder Adam Ingersoll discusses this topic with Eric Furda, Senior Associate Director of College Counseling at William Penn Charter High School (PA) and former Dean of…
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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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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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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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Superscoring Many in college admission talk about reading applications holistically and supportively; one way they can do this is by “superscoring” standardized tests. This means that if you take the…
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Is Yale test optional? While (another) Ivy League test-requirement decision directly pertains to a relatively small pool of ultra-high achievers, understanding the rationale of these policy shifts helps all college-bound…
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As expected, Dartmouth announced this week that it will reactivate its standardized testing requirement beginning with the high school graduating class of 2025. Yale will likely follow suit shortly. 11th…
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