As expected, Dartmouth announced this week that it will reactivate its standardized testing requirement beginning with the high school graduating class of 2025. Yale will likely follow suit shortly. 11th…
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Over the past few years, efforts have been made to encourage more colleges to accept self-reported SAT and ACT scores from students during the application process and only require official…
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A number of our contacts in admissions offices confirmed this past weekend what we’ve surmised for the past four years was inevitable: College Board is eliminating the SAT Subject Tests…
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Prior to the onset of the pandemic, a decades-long movement away from testing requirements already had momentum. There are many rationales for removing the requirement. Perhaps the most fundamental is…
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For a breakdown of COVID-19's impact on admission and testing broadly, see: Impact of COVID-19 on College Admission and Testing Key Takeaways: In Spring of 2020, traditional AP Exams did…
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BREAKING NEWS: College Board cancels June testing, adds September 26th SAT-only date. College admission and testing is in a state of upheaval, like so much else in our lives. What…
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On January 19th, 2021, College Board announced that they will no longer administer the SAT Subject Tests in the U.S. and that the Essay would be retired. Read our blog…
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A test prep plan that would be too much or too soon for most students is practical and necessary for others. In this post we consider the factors that make…
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As predicted, the ACT proved more popular than the SAT for several years after SAT's design overhaul, both nationwide and among Compass students. Now that the new SAT transition aftershocks…
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One of the benefits of having relocated to New York City to support our office here is being more readily available and able to say yes when media opportunities arise.…
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