Are you a student trying to decide between ACT testing and SAT testing? If you are, here are the Top 10 Reasons To Take the ACT. We’ll be following this post up with a Top 10 Reasons to Take the SAT. And, remember, Ivy Coach offers fantastic tutoring for the …
At Ivy Coach, we offer SAT test prep with dynamic tutors who help prepare students around the world for this all-important exam. If you’re a student trying to decide between taking the ACT or the SAT, we’ve posted reasons to take the SAT below. The ACT is better for some …
TOEFL is the Test of English as a Foreign Language, a test that our tutors at Ivy Coach help students around the world interested in applying to U.S. universities prepare for. Our TOEFL prep is for students who attend school in another country in which instruction at that school is …
Our Founder, Bev Taylor, wrote a controversial “Huffington Piece” article a couple of months ago about how AP tests are a bit of a scam. She told the story of how her son, who had already been admitted to the Ivy League school of his dreams, chose to doodle on his …
At Ivy Coach, we don’t work with parents of prospective kindergartners interested in gaining admission to selective kindergartens (though we do recommend Stephanie Sigal for ERB prep). Yes, if you live outside of Manhattan, you read the above sentence correctly. For Manhattanites, parents stress out about getting their kids into …
There are some college admissions counseling firms that offer services to children as young as pre-schoolers. We’re not one of them. But we do receive a number of calls from parents looking to help their children prepare for the ERB. Getting into kindergarten in New York City, after all, isn’t …
The College Board and SAT tutoring — now that’s a war that’s been going on for a while! The College Board continues to insist that tutoring doesn’t actually lead to increased SAT scores. We suppose that you can guess what we think about this. They eat a lot of bologna. …
We recently wrote about how The College Board will (unfairly) be offering an SAT administration to students enrolled at a $4,500 summer program at Amherst College. They’ve been getting quite a lot of flack for it. And if they think it’s over, it isn’t. We plan to write much more …
Have you read about The College Board and the SAT scandal? The College Board has received quite a bit of bad press for their summer SAT exam for rich kids. If we had a hand in contributing to that bad press, then we’re quite proud of that. What was The …
A summer SAT exam will be offered this August 3rd at Amherst College. If you’re not familiar with SAT exam scheduling, there is no summer SAT. But The College Board wanted to run a pilot test, to see if administering SAT exams over the summer was something they should consider …
