Test-Required and Test-Blind Redefined
Colleges are increasingly using standardized exam scores beyond just SAT and ACT scores in their admissions decisions.
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Colleges are increasingly using standardized exam scores beyond just SAT and ACT scores in their admissions decisions.
A fascinating piece from Inside Higher Ed and a podcast episode with Yale’s dean of admission point to challenges and changes to assessing the academic preparedness of college applicants.
December 2nd marked the end of an era in college entrance exams. For the first time in its 97-year history (first given in 1926), the SAT will no longer be administered as a paper exam. The next SAT, which will be administered in March of 2024, will be digital, adaptive,
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
The current version of the SAT will only be offered four more times — in August, October, November, and December of this year (2023). The next SAT, in March of 2024, will be the new, digital SAT. (Exciting!) So, should students prepare for the current SAT, the ACT, and/or the
Test-optional admissions is changing and has split into three different groups: test-required with rare exceptions, test preferred, and truly test-optional.