The College Essay Guy, aka Ethan Sawyer, runs a platform (blog, podcast, website) providing college admission related guidance to tens of thousands of followers. He recently interviewed me for his…
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Why are Subject Tests required by drastically fewer colleges than a decade ago? Is the relevance and popularity of the tests actually diminishing? Are the tests likely to survive or...
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ACT’s controversial essay scoring has claimed more victims — in this case, two of its more student-friendly policies. Testers who felt that there were inconsistencies in the multiple-choice grading or…
ACT Essay scaled score range now 2-12 again, no longer 1-36 Just nine months ago, ACT debuted a radically overhauled and ambitious new essay assignment and scoring methodology that moved the…
Starting in 2016-2017, high schools will have the option to offer students a lightweight warm-up to the ACT. The rationale for the new PreACT offering and the potential benefits for…
Nearly three years ago, the College Board announced plans for a major redesign of the SAT. In less than three months, the new SAT will finally make its debut. Tickets…
In February 2013, not many 8th graders would have been paying attention to the initial College Board announcements about overhauls of the PSAT and SAT. Those 8th graders are now juniors, and the…
The good news for ACT, Inc is that their offering, the eponymous ACT, is the runaway first choice of students nationwide this year. The bad news for students is that…
Several members of the Compass leadership team — Bruce Reed, Matt Steiner, and I — spent February 19-20 in Newport Beach attending the College Board’s annual Western Regional Forum. We make it…
Faithful readers of this blog know that the major SAT redesign is framed and heavily influenced by the Common Core landscape nationally. Well, score one for the College Board in…