Stress! That will be the dominating word if you do not take some proactive steps to ready yourself for applying to colleges your senior year. Before...
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Which Gives You an Edge: the ACT or the SAT?
While the Ivies are rejecting nine out of ten of their applicants, students are wondering how to get an edge for admission to their dream college...
Blogger Breaks Summer Hiatus with SAT News
This month The College Board finally changed its policy for reporting SAT scores to colleges. The standard procedure is that you name the colleges...
On-line Education
Justin Pope has written top universities are catching up with the technology revolution and beginning to provide course work on line. The largest...
Attention, Juniors!!!
If you are ending your junior year of high school and looking forward to a summer off, think again. There are things you need to be doing this summer...
Juniors, What Should You Do This Summer?
Colleges are looking for passion. If you want to stand out as a college applicant, you need to be more than a great student and athlete. You also...
A Gap Year?
The Gap Year is catching on. Long popular in Europe, the Gap Year is taking time between graduating from high school and before entering college to...
August is for Reading
What do University of Florida, Carleton, Skidmore, University of Vermont, and Syracuse have in common? They all require entering freshman to read an...
SAT’s Writing Section is Taken More Seriously as It Grows
In 2007, Richie Frohlichstein wrote another article about the new writing section in the SATs. He admitted the jury is still out as to the importance...
How Important is the New S.A.T. Writing Section?
In November, 2006, Nancy Hass, a contributor to The New York Times, wrote about the newly instituted writing, or essay, section of the SATs, which...