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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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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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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Last week, Compass hosted over 200 California college counselors for a series of lunch-and-learn symposia focused on the rapidly changing trends in college admission testing. The first event happened to…
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The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) honors between 52,000 and 58,000 students each year. In the Class of 2026, there were more than 41,000 Commended Students and just over 17,000…
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Will June ACT takers be in for a surprise? Paper-and-pencil test takers will see the traditional exam in June 2024. Students opting to take the test on the computer, however,…
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College Board began releasing March SAT scores on Friday, March 22. This post covers how to access and interpret those scores and what to do next. Access Your Scores Go…
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