Your child may be a motivated self-starter with great grades, but even Nobel Prize winning academics and olympic athletes have mentors and coaches to guide them!
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In a surprise announcement last week, Harvard reversed its previous commitment to test-optional admissions through the 2025-26 cycle. By setting this precedent, we expect to see additional top colleges do the same...
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UPenn follows Cornell and Vanderbilt, but that doesn’t mean students are off the hook for testing if they want to be competitive!
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We’ve been warning you for more than a year, and now the time has finally come. Here’s a reminder on what to expect on the new digital SAT.
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Brown joins the growing number of elite colleges reinstating test requirements for undergrad admissions. Here’s what you need to know.
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Yale University's shift to 'test flexible' admissions for fall 2025, following Dartmouth College's lead, underscores a trend in Ivy League institutions.
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On the heels of Dartmouth bringing back their testing requirements, Cornell and Vanderbilt say, “not yet”.
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Every year, students sleep on the opportunity to be considered for the National Merit Scholarship Program. What is it? How do you get in? We answer these questions and more…
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We’ve heard over and over again from colleges that test-optional means that students without test scores won’t be at a disadvantage, but is that really true? Here we breakdown the data that colleges have made public so you can see for yourself.
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All of the upcoming ACT testing dates and registration deadlines.
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All of the upcoming SAT testing dates and registration deadlines, as well as dates for the upcoming digital SAT.
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While both the SAT and ACT are meant to gauge a student’s reading, writing, and mathematics abilities, the format of the tests and the scores are quite different.
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We’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop! Nearly three years after the COVID pandemic led nearly every college in the country switch to test-optional admissions, Columbia says test-optional is here to stay. What does this mean for your student?
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to college admissions, including the move to test-optional for many universities. It looks like many of those same schools will not be changing back any time soon. What does that mean for students applying?
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The ACT and SAT have always posed different challenges, and many students perform better on one test over the other. However, given the uncertainty posed by the upcoming digital SAT, your student should strongly consider the ACT instead.
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More details have been released regarding the upcoming fully-digital SAT. International students will be taking it this spring, and U.S. students will have the option to take it shortly thereafter. Here’s what you need to know, and why your student should consider the ACT instead.
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Check out these key tips from Ivy Link’s test prep experts.
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