For current 11th graders, Compass recommends choosing the SAT or the current ACT, as the staggered rollout of changes from April 2025 into 2026 compromises the new ACT for the…
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This year several prominent schools made headlines for reinstating testing requirements. Brown, Caltech, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale joined Georgetown and MIT on a list of popular private institutions…
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Last week, Compass hosted over 200 California college counselors for a series of lunch-and-learn symposia focused on the rapidly changing trends in college admission testing. The first event happened to…
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While (another) Ivy League test-requirement decision directly pertains to a relatively small pool of ultra-high achievers, understanding the rationale of these policy shifts helps all college-bound students appreciate the complicated…
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Many of Compass’s current families first came to us years ago when their oldest child reached the college testing stage. It’s fun to hear returning parents reflect on what they…
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At Compass, we guide our families forward by working backward. Spring is when most of our long term planning conversations with sophomores begin, as their actions over the next 18…
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After three volatile admission cycles, the role of test scores has stabilized around a lasting dichotomy: neither testing nor test-optional allowances are going away anytime soon. This polarity is most…
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Ask a dozen people about college admission testing and you’ll get a dozen different takes. What you hear depends on whom you ask and the relationship they have with testing.…
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This article is an excerpt from the Compass Guide to College Admission Testing. To download the complete Guide or to request a hard copy, visit compassprep.com/guide. Until recently, taking the ACT…
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When you first speak with a Compass director to learn more about our test preparation services, they’ll ask a few questions to get a sense of where you stand and…
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