AP Exam Scores Are Important For College Admissions — Updated 2025
AP and IB exam scores continue to rise in importance for college admissions.
AP and IB exam scores continue to rise in importance for college admissions.
At least 122 colleges have already returned to requiring test scores or said they will return to doing so in the 2025-2026 admissions cycle. A few of the most notable to do so: MIT, Caltech (which jumped all the way from test-blind directly to test-required), Harvard (which ended its moratorium
Among other fascinating parts of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” is the research he presents in Chapter 9 about the disparity in educational outcomes between students from different income groups.
To maximize your chances of a high SAT or ACT score, don’t prep for a test date, prep for a test score. Sometimes preparing for a specific test date is unavoidable (such as when a student has one last test before early application deadlines in senior year). But, I’ll explain
One of the most difficult aspects of taking the ACT is timing, particularly on the Reading and Science sections. In order to improve on these sections, students need a lot of practice (preferably from the real tests), the right strategies (skim for key terms on the reading section, when to
ChatGPT, the AI that can write college application essays, just changed the college admissions landscape forever. Here are the implications.
