On September 17th I attended the CollegeBoard‘s 2015 Counselor Workshop at the University of Richmond. I was eager to go for several reasons; partly because I’d never been to one before (my last school was located a bit off the beaten path), partly because the University of Richmond has one of the most beautiful college campuses […]
Category: SAT
My Thoughts on Three New College Admissions Methods
At age 17, I decided to limit my college search to tiny Marlboro College in Vermont (which eschewed traditional classes for one-on-one tutorials) and Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts (whose professors give detailed narrative evaluations instead of grades). There were other reasons–I wanted a college where I could watch Red Sox games on local television, for […]
SAT & ACT Security Policies & What They Mean To You
Starting in 2013 America’s two college entrance exams, the SAT and the ACT will be drastically tightening their security procedures. They seem to be motivated by the general fetish for increased security in America and also by some recent “scandals”, but the result will be a significantly different test-taking experience for millions of college-bound high […]
Musings on the SAT Report on College & Career Readiness: 2012
On September 24, 2012, the College Board released a 43 page long report entitled “The SAT® Report on College & Career Readiness: 2012“. For people like me (who love to look at and analyze data to try to observe trends) it is a very interesting and useful resource. Some of the interesting information one can […]