Curious about the history of the SAT? Or about how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped The College Board’s business model? There’s an outstanding piece in The New Yorker by Eren Orbey that shines a lantern on how the ubiquitous standardized test has changed since its inception (and particularly over these …
While it may well be a surprise to no one, the number of students in the high school graduating Class of 2021 who took the SAT fell sharply from the high school graduating Class of 2020. For the Class of 2011, about 1.5 million students took the SAT — compared …
If one subscribes to the list-serv for the National Association for College Admission Counseling as we do, one might think that just about everyone and their Great Aunt Sally is against the consideration of the SAT or ACT in college admissions. Except of course the employees of The College Board …
We’ve heard this refrain from parents quite a few times this admissions cycle: “All of the tests in our area were canceled.” We always wait a beat to see if they have anything more to add. But usually the sentence ends there. so because the SAT or ACT or SAT …
A Florida high school student has accused ETS, the administrator of the College Board’s SAT exam, of racial bias with respect to its decision to hold for review her latest SAT score. The student, Kamilah Campbell, took the exam this past October but didn’t receive her score along with other …
When folks are asked their favorite companies in the world, companies like Apple and Netflix may come to mind. And what are a couple of companies that are unlikely to come to mind? ACT and College Board. Come on, even College Board and ACT executives would have difficulty arguing that …
We offer one-on-one SAT prep at Ivy Coach. We also offer one-on-one ACT, SAT Subject Test, AP prep…you name it, we tutor it. But whether you choose to work with Ivy Coach for tutoring or not, we have a recommendation: group tutoring isn’t nearly as effective as is individualized one-on-one …
On a day in which students found out their June SAT or SAT Subject Test scores, know that while these tests are extremely important in highly selective college admissions, they aren’t everything. Can a student with 1,200 SATs (on all three sections of the exam) gain admission to Harvard? No. …
We’ve written quite a bit in recent weeks about the ongoing SAT cheating scandal in Asia, much of which was reported by Valerie Strauss of “The Washington Post” through a series of articles. Strauss’ reporting on the subject has indeed been quite comprehensive. Today, the United States Justice Department made some …
Shame on ETS! The Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the SAT for the College Board, is unnecessarily putting a whole lot of students through a painful process. According to “The Choice” blog of “The New York Times,” they’re making nearly 200 students retake the SAT. And why? Because at …
