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How to Prepare for the ACT or SAT

College Admissions Partners

Despite the movement at many colleges to go test optional, most BS/MD programs still require students submit an ACT or SAT score. In deciding how to prepare for the ACT or SAT you first have to determine which test to take. That’s good to know but how do you actually determine which test to take?

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Test Optional: Should You Take the SAT or ACT?

ACM College Consulting

Frustratingly, it is difficult to understand how the test-optional schools are using test scores and what the effects of submitting or not submitting scores have on applications. Another factor to take into consideration is if SAT or ACT scores are required to be eligible for certain scholarships.

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Checklist for Spring of Sophomore Year

CTK College Coach

Sophomores, you have completed the first half of high school and are headed for big things in the coming months and years, including preparing for college applications. Students who are behind that schedule in math can start preparing in the middle of junior year to test in late junior year and summer before senior year.

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Checklist for Spring of Sophomore Year

CTK College Coach

Sophomores, you have completed the first half of high school and are headed for big things in the coming months and years, including preparing for college applications. Students who are behind that schedule in math can start preparing in the middle of junior year to test in late junior year and summer before senior year.

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Should I Take the New Digital SAT?

Spark Admissions

Is the new digital SAT good? Is the new digital SAT bad? We will try to answer these questions below. As you may know, the SAT is in the process of transitioning to a new version of the test. Below, we discuss some of the most significant changes to the current SAT and what they might mean for you and your college application process.

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Thoughts On What 2023 College Admissions Tell Us About Future Applications

Ivy Central

As COVID hit the world in the spring of 2020 so the standard orthodoxy around SAT or ACT testing went out of the window as colleges declared themselves Test Optional, meaning that students could choose if they wanted to submit test scores and that their chances of acceptance wouldn’t be impacted if they didn’t.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action at U.S. Colleges

Spark Admissions

Given this stance, a 6-3 majority of justices ruled that the use of race in college admissions violated previous laws pertaining to equality before the law, including the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As with all major historical moments, the impact of the decision will not be known for years.

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