Hack The Admissions Process

By Matt Larriva, CEO, Powerful Prep.   Recent studies have indicated that students with lower test scores than the broader applicant pool can gain admission to schools by taking advantage of certain anomalies in the process. While we’ve long recognized that colleges held different admissions standards for recruited athletes compared to the rest of their […]

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Who gets in?

(Inside Higher Ed) by Scott Jaschik. Rebecca Zwick’s views on admissions and diversity can’t be easily categorized. She has divided her career between academe (where she is professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara) and the Educational Testing Service, one of the major players in standardized testing in the United States. But her […]

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PARCC, Smarter Balanced, ACT & SAT State Shifts

(Edweek) by Debra Viadero. Students spend an average of 10 days out of the school year taking district-mandated tests and nine days taking state-required tests, according to the Center on Education Policy. Over 12 years of schooling, that adds up to nearly four months of a young person’s life. And that’s just the tip of […]

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SAT and ACT Tutors, Southern Orange County, CA.

Test Prep & Tutoring Professionals is seeking SAT and ACT tutors for regular assignments with an established test prep & tutoring firm in Orange County, CA.  The tutoring is delivered in-center (not in-home) and small group assignments may be available as well.  Weekly hours are flexible (usually two weeknights and part of a weekend day). Tutoring […]

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