Back in January, The College Board announced the elimination of the SAT Subject Tests. The SAT Subject Tests had long been one of The College Board’s major lines of business but the organization, facing the toughest year it has faced in its history, saw the writing on the wall. With …
A key objective of Ivy Coach’s college admissions blog is to debunk misconceptions about the highly selective college admissions process. You see, the admissions process to our nation’s elite universities is stressful enough. Parents and students don’t need admissions officers, school counselors, private college counselors, and the local handyman spreading …
Yesterday, we wrote about how College Board, the maker of the AP exams, announced plans to move up the registration deadline for AP exams beginning next year. As reported Jim Jump for “Inside Higher Ed” in a piece entitled “Ethical College Admissions: AP Registration,” “Whereas registration for the May AP …
Every year we designate one editorial on college admissions to be the best piece of the year. That distinction this year is an easy one and it belongs to Jay Mathews of “The Washington Post” for his recent piece entitled “Attack on AP by 8 D.C.-area private schools flunks the …
When are AP score results for the May 2017 AP exams being released? Between July 5th and July 9th, 2017 — depending upon where you live. College Board, the maker of the AP exams, has released a schedule of when students will be receiving their AP scores. That rollout schedule …
We’ve been writing quite a bit about AP testing of late. To briefly sum up what we think about AP testing, we advise our students at Ivy Coach to take as many AP tests as possible. We advise them to take AP tests in subjects that their high schools don’t even …
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 …
A little while ago, we posted a blog about a flaw of AP testing and our founder, Bev Taylor, followed that up with a separate piece in “The Huffington Post” calling out for change to an absurd AP policy. We’ve received a ton of emails and posts since — some of …
There’s an interesting op-ed published by John Tierney, a former college professor and high school teacher, who believes that AP classes are “a scam.” We’re going to be discussing John Tierney’s post in future blogs (you might be surprised to know that there is a whole lot about what he …
