For many students, one of the most significant stressors in the college admissions process is preparing for and taking the ACT and/or SAT. Across the country, parents pay hundreds, if not thousands of dollars for test prep classes and private tutors, and students spend hours upon hours studying for these [...]
For many students, one of the most dreaded parts of the college admissions process is taking college entrance exams. The ACT and SAT are the most popular such exams, and there is a great deal of hype around preparing for and taking these tests. Parents often spend hundreds or even thousands of [...]
If you are a high school freshman or younger, the SAT you'll eventually take will be quite different from the one that's now in existence. Last week, the College Board, which produces and administers the SAT, announced that it will begin offering a revamped version of the test in 2016. The changes [...]
That is the question that Debbie Stier, a mother of two from Irvington, New York, set out to answer. When her eldest son was a sophomore in high school, Stier decided that, in order to motivate him to begin studying for the SAT, she would study for it herself. Her [...]
