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Guest Post: College Essay Myths and Facts

By Susan Knoppow CEO, Wow Writing Workshop Students come…
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Applying Abroad? What U.S. Students Need to Know About Test Requirements

Over the past few years, we’ve started to see more of our students…
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From the SAT to the MCAT: How Your Study Strategy Needs to Change in College

The SAT and ACT are two of the more important milestone tests…
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The AI Era Is Rewriting College Admissions

The AI Era Is Rewriting College Admissions The College Essay…
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Edison Prep Review: The New TI‑84 Evo Calculator

Date: 5/1/26 By: Brian Eufinger, Edison Prep Co-Founder Edison…
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Hot Off the Press—Tutor Insights from Taking the Real October 2025 ACT

By: Brian & Silvia Eufinger, Edison Prep Co-Founders When…
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Do Not Cannibalize Enhanced ACT Practice Tests

Date: June 28, 2025 By: Brian Eufinger, Edison Prep Co-Founder The…
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Is the ACT Getting Harder?

By Brian Eufinger, Edison Prep Co-Founder The upcoming ACT…
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Guest Post: Leveraging Downtime to Pay for College via External Scholarships

By Dave the Scholarship Coach with Scholarship GPS There’s…
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Why Do AP Exams Matter?

Date: March 18, 2025 By: Rowen, Operations Manager and Tutor Advanced…
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Guest Post: How to Turn Academic Goals into a Reality

By Lee Allen – Simply Admissions Setting academic goals…
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Guest Post: The Importance of Demonstrated Interest

By Jess Chermak, Virtual College Counselors There are few…
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Guest Post: College Transitions’ Dataverse and How to Use Data to Enhance Your College Search! 

by Michael Trivette, College Transitions Acceptance rates,…
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Guest Post: Deferred vs. Waitlisted: Key Differences and What to Do Next

The high school Class of 2025 is currently receiving early action…
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Guest Post: Building a Winning Transcript: The Role of Course Selection in College Admissions

By Allison Grandits, Grand Fit Educational Consulting According…
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Winners Take the ACT on Paper!

Last updated 5/14/26 (to address the April 2026 ACT Digital test…
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Stay Sharp over Winter Break

12/20/2024 Winter break is the perfect opportunity for sophomores…
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Guest Post: Is it easier to get into Harvard than UGA Honors?

By Kate Harmer, Catalyst College Counseling Every year, there…
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Guest Post: The Critical Importance of a Diversified College List

By Jen Henry, The Write Path Aiming (Too) High I had a…
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Guest Post: Understanding High School Profiles: What Every College Applicant Should Know

By Steve Tapper, Independent College Counselor High schools…
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Guest Post: How to Navigate College Essay Season

By Kelly Clinch (our college counselor friend!) Writing college…
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An Admissions Case Study: Vanderbilt University’s Mind-boggling Class of 2017

As a company, we hold the belief that empirical, quantitative…
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The ACT Begins Automatic Superscoring in Its Score Reporting

Just a few months before covid, the ACT announced a bevy of upcoming…
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The ACT Announces Growth in Online Testing Options, Individual Section Re-Testing, and Updated Superscoring Infrastructure

This morning, we woke up to over 45 parents and college counselors…
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Addressing the College Board’s Environmental Context Dashboard (ECD, AKA the “adversity score”)

When the May 16th Wall Street Journal article about the College…
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Maximizing the Efficiency of Your Student’s Studying: Our Ongoing Mantra (Formula Box Lock Screens)

Edison Prep is always looking for ways to increase the efficiency…
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The SAT Reclaims Its Lead As The More Popular Test* (Heavy on the asterisk)

Today, the College Board released the annual national report for…
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The Curse of the Easy Test: A June 2018 SAT Case Study

The June 2018 SAT scores were released yesterday morning, and…
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Comparison of old and new SAT/ACT conversion scales for 2016 and 2018.

ACT/SAT Bombshell: The New Official Conversion Table Twists the Top End of the Curve

Close to three years ago, the initial incarnation of the New…
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Guest Post: The Importance of the College Essay

By: Dr. Nicole Cook, Founder, HorizonsEd College Counseling Note: Edison…
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Outback Club

The Outback Club was created for our students who are able to…
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UGA 2016 Early Action Musings: An Update of Our Popular 2014 Blog Post

Back in May 2014, we posted our original "All About UGA:…
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ACT Reverts to Old Writing (Essay) Scale of 2-12

Earlier this week, the ACT announced that beginning with the…
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Understanding the New SAT’s 1600-point score scale

Note: This blog post was originally published June 12, 2016,…
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The Unpublished Changes to the ACT, Part III: The New Essay’s Tough Scale, Science Section Changes, and Score Release Delays

Note: This blog post is the third (and hopefully final!) post…
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Be Careful What You Wish For: The Cautionary Tale of the New SAT for March 2016

The College Board just released its first meaningful problem…
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The Unpublished Changes to the ACT, Part II: A Follow-Up With Additional Data

Note: This blog post is Part II of a two-part series about changes…
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The Unpublished Changes to the ACT

The upcoming SAT changes in 2016 have dominated the mainstream…
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All About UGA: Ruminations from the 2014 UGA Admissions Process

UGA is a school of particular interest to many of our clients,…
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10 Tips for SAT/ACT Preparation and College Admissions: Summer 2013

1. Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. Your student should…
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Curve Ball: Why Hitting a Standardized Test Home Run is Becoming Harder

Background: In year 2000, fewer than half of the top 20 students…
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New SAT Registration Procedures are Challenging: A Primer on Navigating the Heightened Security Procedures

Note: For an easy-to-print PDF version of this blog post, click here. Thanks…
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Standardized Testing is Anything But Standardized

I took the May 2012 SAT at a local school that we recommend to…
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Instilling A Student’s Passion for Achieving a Higher Score on the SAT/ACT

As anyone who has come to one of Edison Prep’s parent meetings has…
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Report from the Front Lines: Taking the December 10th ACT

Silvia and I both take the SAT and ACT multiple times each year…
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The Great Opportunity and Great Peril of a High Starting Score on the SAT and ACT

Many students who come to Edison Prep for tutoring assistance…
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College Planning: The Early Bird Gets the Worm

Many homebuyers work diligently and carefully with their realtors…
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