This post was contributed by Alexandra Rhodes, an independent educational consultant based in Beverly Hills. You can learn more about Alexandra and her practice at: RhodesEducationalConsulting.com. Big news out recently from…
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Davin Sweeney, creator of The Crush podcast and an Associate Director of Admission at University of Rochester, interviewed Compass co-founder, Adam Ingersoll, about the current state of college admission testing. Davin…
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On March 17th, ERB's Vice President of Admission Testing, Elizabeth Mangas, sent an email to independent school admission directors across the country. The email announced a radical new testing policy…
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In response to a post on National Merit Semifinalist cutoffs, a reader asked several questions that touched on the issue of PSAT score "compression" -- the fact that top scores…
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As NMSC began contacting high schools about student eligibility, we learned that the Commended Scholar cutoff was 209 rather than our original estimate of 207. Other data have also filtered…
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“What’s a good score?” is the second most common question we hear about Subject Tests—right after “Which subjects should I take?” Students struggle with these two questions because many of…
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Starting in 2016-2017, high schools will have the option to offer students a lightweight warm-up to the ACT. The rationale for the new PreACT offering and the potential benefits for…
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Sometimes the preconceptions we bring to a testing term can cause confusion. For example, most students are familiar with scaling from tests in school. Some teachers like to challenge students…
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This post still contains useful information about the development of our cutoff estimates, but it has been superseded by our more recent methodology. National Merit cut-offs released in September 2015…
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We have received word of a few important developments in the world of college admission testing. Addition of August SAT in 2017 College Board (CB) quietly released its SAT dates…
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