After three volatile admission cycles, the role of test scores has stabilized around a lasting dichotomy: neither testing nor test-optional allowances are going away anytime soon. This polarity is most...
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The move from a paper-and-pencil SAT to a digital, adaptive SAT is one of the biggest changes the test has seen in its 100-year history. As of the March 2024...
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Compass has compiled the most recently available score range data and admission testing policies for popular colleges and universities, public and private, chosen to represent a wide array of four-year...
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Superscoring Many in college admission talk about reading applications holistically and supportively; one way they can do this is by “superscoring” standardized tests. This means that if you take the...
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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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Over the past few months, Compass has had the privilege of leading educational sessions for counselors and admission professionals across the country, including PCACAC (Harrisonburg, VA), WACAC (Long Beach, CA),…
Ask a dozen people about college admission testing and you’ll get a dozen different takes. What you hear depends on whom you ask and the relationship they have with testing....
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This article is an excerpt from the Compass Guide to College Admission Testing. To download the complete Guide or to request a hard copy, visit compassprep.com/guide. Until recently, taking the ACT…
When ACT announced Superscore reporting and Section Retesting in the fall of 2019, it had no way of knowing that a 2020 rollout would be upended by a pandemic. Superscore...
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For many high school students, the ubiquity of flexible testing policies makes applying to college simpler. And, in some ways harder. Until recently, taking the SAT or ACT was something...
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