The June 2018 SAT scores were released yesterday morning, and tutors’ phones and online student message boards such as Reddit and College Confidential instantly began to light up with seemingly unfathomable stories about an incredibly harsh curve on the June SAT test. Our first student text was “I missed 3 math questions and got a 720??? My last Blue Book […]
Close to three years ago, the initial incarnation of the New SAT/ACT conversion table came out. Universities needed something to compare the ACT to the new SAT that debuted in March 2016 side-by-side. That grid has been used by colleges for the past few admissions cycles to make apples-to-apples comparisons. As time went on, both Edison […]
By: Dr. Nicole Cook, Founder, HorizonsEd College Counseling Note: Edison Prep will be hosting an occasional guest post from college counselors, financial counselors, and the like to add to the breadth and depth of our blog. Dr. Cook’s guest post has the honor of being the first one! Angst about the “college essay” is deep-seated in many […]
The Outback Club was created for our students who are able to achieve extremely high scores and/or extraordinary score increases on the SAT/ACT. Each semester, students who hit one of the benchmarks below are invited to the Outback Club, where we celebrate by treating them to dinner on us at Outback Steakhouse®. How it got […]
Back in May 2014, we posted our original “All About UGA: Ruminations from the 2014 UGA Admissions Process” blog post, which has attracted more than 500% as many views as most of our other blog posts. Therefore, since UGA’s Early Action Admits were released this past Friday, we wanted to update our original post with […]
Earlier this week, the ACT announced that beginning with the Sept. 2016 exam, it will be reverting to the tried-and-true familiar essay score of 2-12 that was utilized from the inception of the ACT essay until June 2015. The ACT has finally conceded that the new essay scale of 0-48 raw points that is then scaled and […]
Note: This blog post was originally published June 12, 2016, but was heavily heavily augmented with additional data when the College Board released full percentile data for the new test on 6/24/16. Since the May SAT scores came out earlier this month, we wanted to write a detailed blog post that can help address students’ and parents’ questions […]
Note: This blog post is the third (and hopefully final!) post in a series about very consequential but under-the-radar changes to the ACT. For the first two parts of this series please see these two links: Part 1 | Part 2 The continued changes to the ACT may not have been as heavily covered in the mainstream media as […]
The College Board just released its first meaningful problem sets of sample PSAT/SAT questions, which is far more helpful than the specifications document that industry professionals scrutinized this past April. The coming March 2016 SAT overhaul, which has been widely chronicled in the media, has finally begun taking shape. (Links to the sample problem sets are at […]
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