Articles on College Admission and Standards in Testing

5 Things You Should be Doing the Week Before the Big Test

You spend months preparing for the SAT or ACT. You take endless practice tests, expand your vocabulary, brush up on your math, and generally pour countless hours (often in a class or with a tutor) into getting ready for the test. With all that time and energy spent, you want ...

3 Ways to Find Great Colleges for You Without Using Rankings

Numbers sometimes lie (and people sometimes lie about numbers). More importantly, numbers don’t tell the whole story. When you’re looking at colleges, you’ll want to make judicious use of the available numbers — and then look beyond them to uncover information about what life at a school is really like. What the Numbers ...

Your Kids Will Love Doing Math This Summer (If You Do Too)

In summertime, the living is easy, but making sure your children don’t forget all the math they learned in the past school year is hard. Still, just as you work to keep them interested in reading by having books around the house, you can keep them interested in numbers by helping them ...