WHY HERE? May 3, 2021 By Leanne Soulard Have you seen the admissions statistics at Ivy League and other highly selective schools this year? Students applied to more of both simply because many schools temporarily waived standardized testing requirements through 2023...
TESTING ADVICE: ASK THE EXPERT April 1, 2021 By Kerry A. Lynch This blog pushes deeper into the challenges of developing a testing and test preparation timeline. I posed a series of questions to test prep expert, Alexis Peterson. Alexis is a Stanford and...
FREE COLLEGE PLANNING WEBINAR! It took a pandemic to enact some of the recent changes in college admissions. Standardized test scores, once considered the best predictor of academic success, are now taking a back seat to the transcript and personal characteristics...
DEVELOPING A STANDARDIZED TESTING TIMELINE March 3, 2021 By Kerry A. Lynch In a late September blog post about standardized testing, I stated that the future was hard to predict but the key is to plan for testing until it is totally clear that it won’t be needed at...
Building an initial college list pt. 2 By Kerry Lynch February 8, 2021 Many high school seniors complete a close reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the first act, Polonius speaks with his son, Laertes, who is about to leave for university. He suggests, “This above...
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