Updated March 21 to reflect the unsatisfactory solution College Board has provided to students at sites where an "irregularity report" was filed. Students who were directly impacted by the auto-submission…
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Compass Co-Founder Adam Ingersoll discusses this topic with Eric Furda, Senior Associate Director of College Counseling at William Penn Charter High School (PA) and former Dean of Admissions at UPenn,…
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The New ACT Compass Co-Founder Adam Ingersoll discusses this topic with Eric Furda, Senior Associate Director of College Counseling at William Penn Charter High School (PA) and former Dean of…
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At Compass, we guide our families forward by working backward. Spring is when most of our long term planning conversations with sophomores begin, as their actions over the next 18…
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What’s a good score? is the most commonly asked question when it comes to the digital PSAT and SAT. There are multiple ways of giving context to your score –…
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On October 24th, November 7th, and November 14th, College Board will release digital PSAT scores to students. Compass has created The PSAT Counselor Toolkit to help counselors make the most…
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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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Just before a high-stakes performance, we enter a moment—usually quiet, sometimes a little tense—between preparation and decisive action. Runners toe the starting blocks. Actors find their marks. Test-takers settle into…
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When your testing brand is about staying solid and unchanged, how do you reinvent yourself? That question has weighed heavily on ACT executives in recent years. On July 15th, CEO…
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This year several prominent schools made headlines for reinstating testing requirements. Brown, Caltech, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale joined Georgetown and MIT on a list of popular private institutions…
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