So you’re a rising senior, and it is officially college essay season. The rumor mill is actively swirling around you with lots of information about what makes a good essay. The stakes feel very high. After all, people probably can’t stop talking about how important college essays and supplements are.…
This March, Connecticut’s public high school juniors will again sit for an in-school administration of the SAT free of charge, as has been true since the State Department of Education adopted the SAT as the standardized exam for grade 11 in 2015. But this year, once again, students will take…
Big news for the Class of 2025! Starting in the spring of 2024, today’s 10th graders will be the first class to take a dramatically different SAT. The College Board is retiring the current three-hour paper-and-pencil SAT and introducing a shorter, digital, adaptive test that takes approximately two hours. Say…
Testing accommodations such as testing with extended time, extra and extended breaks, large-type or Braille test books for reading and seeing, among others, can be critical to a student’s success on standardized tests. Receiving appropriate accommodations evens the playing field for all kinds of learners, essentially ensuring that each student…
Each and every year, we see students work tirelessly to achieve the best possible grades, steadily improve their test scores, ensure their extracurricular activities are up to pace, and craft winning college essays and supplements. There is, however, one part of the college application that’s often written off as beyond…
“Literally everything.” Lindsey Sternthal’s response to what she spends too much time thinking about offers a small window into all that goes on in her imagination. That “everything” includes, but isn’t limited to, meditations on unconventional mysteries, wonderings about the supernatural, and futures of traveling and living overseas. Having graduated…
Most colleges and universities are committed to empowering students to put their best foot forward in the admissions process. As such, many schools superscore the SAT and the ACT, taking your best score on each section of the test—drawing from multiple test dates—to create a so-called "superscore." On April 2nd,…
Executive Functioning is a buzzword that seems to get thrown around a lot in academic circles. A lot of people are unfamiliar with the term, or perhaps even turned off by its perceived elitist connotation. I’m here to dispel any confusion! Executive Functioning (EF) can best be defined as the…
In the same way that the 2020 AP Exams threw us a curveball last spring, the 2021 AP Exams are in a league of their own. This year, the College Board is offering schools the opportunity to mix and match between three different testing windows (listed in the link below)…
Today, colleges are looking to AP Exams as a measure of students’ mastery of academic work, and top scores can play an important role in the college admissions process. The purpose of the AP Exams is to validate a student’s academic achievement in high school, thus providing insight into their…
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