I recently attended my daughter’s orientation at a great University she will be attending this Fall. It was a two day jam packed extravaganza filled with information on what she can expect when she starts school in a little more than a month. There was great information for both students and parents. There were sessions Read More
Today I saw a great example of how not educating young adults about finances can be a big problem. A student anonymously called into a radio program in Atlanta and outlined how she had been given $90,000 for college by her grandparents to pay for her college. She ran through the money after her junior Read More
Because it will be significantly different from today’s exam, the team at Method Test Prep has spent many hours learning about the new SAT. Can you spot the error in the underlined portion of this sentence? This is a classic example of a statement that would be entirely acceptable in modern verbal communication (indeed, we all Read More
The new SAT Reading section will ——- the sometimes ——- vocabulary tested on the current SAT, and will instead challenge students with more practical language in context. (A) expunge . . visceral (B) venerate . . arcane (C) recapitulate . . superfluous (D) eschew . . grandiloquent (E) distend . . outlandish When students Read More
Explaining the New SAT Mathematics Sections “Why am I learning this math? I’m never going to use it in the real world –– it’s useless!” We’ve heard that before. Students have been uttering some variant of the above for a very long time. On the one hand, hearing it is frustrating: educators know that utility Read More
I attended TACAC’s 35th annual conference at the Hyatt Houston last week and heard some really great presentations. The state of College Admissions continues to grow. What I enjoy about these meetings is that High School Counselors and Admissions Counselors from Colleges & Universities get to mingle together and discuss how to best help students. Read More
Yesterday, the College Board released extensive information detailing the changes behind the new SAT, which will be administered for the first time in spring 2016. While there were hints of what was to come, we now have topic lists and sample questions that present the form and content of the updated exam. In this series Read More
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