(Washington Post) By Valerie Strauss, Mark Kantrowitz

May 1 is otherwise known as Decision Day, when high school seniors around the country who are planning to attend college in the fall are expected to finally […]

(NY City Lens) By Krutika Pathi.     Months before the fourth grade Common Core exams, Caroline Fisher, who lives in Carroll Gardens, went online and found a tutor specially experienced in teaching the Common C […]

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(Forbes). Unfortunately, almost everything you’ve read about college financial aid is probably wrong. New rules affecting when and how students apply for financial aid will impact families and c […]

Washington Post by Nick Anderson

NEW YORK — The SAT’s infamous guessing penalty is gone. Its vocabulary is less arcane, minus words like “lachrymose” and “obsequious” that students tended to memorize and then fo […]

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There is a unique and profound stress that comes from hearing one’s tutor has missed an assignment (tutor no show). Worse still: the assignment was missed and the tutor has become unresponsive. What essentially f […]

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The  the last administration of the old SAT is next week, and starting in March, students will take the revamped test, which does away with obscure vocabulary words and includes an […]

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SAT vs. ACT 

Each year many parents seem to wonder about the differences between the SAT and the ACT and which test is best for their student.  In the past, the tests have been different enough to warrant s […]

The US Bureau of Labor Statisticshas the number at 993,900 as of 2016 with an estimate of 10% growth each year. If true that puts the number of people who identify as one of the below around 1.1 million in 2019. […]

As reported by Money, it’s no longer an “either/or” question in many families, this new survey finds. For many college-bound students today, the question of whether to take the ACT or the SAT seems to have gotten […]

As reported by Scientific American, “Fortune favors the prepared mind,” as Louis Pasteur once said. So as school revs up this month, so do SAT prep classes. Students might be surprised, however, at the amount of t […]

Last month we noted the importance of scheduling events in the Fall. We reasoned that events generate leads which in turn can generate enrollments. Interestingly, many folks with whom I speak seem to measure event […]

There is a profound stress that comes from hearing a tutor has missed an assignment or no-showed.

What usually follows is a conversation with the parents during which you must determine how much to explain, […]

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Please join us for the 3rd Annual Conference for Tutors, Test Prep Businesses, and Independent College Counselors July 18th & 19th in Boston, […]