(The Dartmouth) By Joyce Lee —

The 555 students accepted early decision for the Dartmouth Class of 2021 are expected to form around 47 percent of the incoming class, the highest level of the past 17 years of […]

TPAPT members enjoy economical access to thoughtfully created business tools designed to help everyone from individual tutors to large learning centers scale and develop business infrastructure.

Our Independent […]

We hosted our first virtual conference in April and recorded the sessions which can be accessed for a small fee. Go there

Kaplan and The Princeton Review recently posted 3Q Financials. Both companies report declines in their YTD Test Prep business segments (-4% and -15% respectively).

While these declines may seem disconcerting to […]

The contagiousness of COVID-19 combined with its mortality rate has made it more worrisome than recent pandemics. 
Reducing direct contact between people  is a fundamental way to control a viral outbreak w […]

(Collegeboard.org)  PRESS RELEASE —

NEW YORK—The College Board has overhauled its request process for testing accommodations, making it easier for eligible students to receive the support they need on College Bo […]

(Education Week)–

ACT Inc., announced Monday that it will provide, for the first time, accommodations for English-learners who take its college-entrance exam.

The options will become available in the fall of […]

(Edweek) By Alyson Klein —

The folks on President-elect Donald Trump’s education transition team will help set the policy course—and likely, even appoint key personnel—for the new administration. Their bac […]

(The Wall Street Journal)  By Georgia Wells —

Match Group, the owner of online dating apps such as Tinder and Plenty of Fish, reported a profit of $56.4 million, compared with a profit of $35.3 million a year […]

(The Boston Globe) By Curt Woodward —

Billionaire investor Gerald Chan has already made his mark buying up much of the real estate in Harvard Square. Now he’s backing an education startup that took root in a Har […]

(The Brown Daily Herald) By Ameer Malik —

I apologize in advance for bringing up the SAT. For quite a few students, including myself, that acronym unearths memories of thick books and No. 2 pencils that are […]

(US News & World Report) By Alexandra Pannoni —

Students accepted to college via early decision are able to nail down their postgraduation plans well ahead of their peers and enjoy the remainder of high scho […]

Welcome to the results from our 2020 Member Survey.  For those of you who haven’t seen this before, we use this survey to determine what is covered at our annual conference. 

If you want to get a sense of what h […]

(Cornell College News) By Staff Writers —
The new SAT has two sections: mathematics and English, each scored from 200-800, for a total out of 1600. The most recent “old SAT” gave a total out of 240 […]

Knowing the SAT & ACT test dates, deadlines, and score reporting is an incremental part of planning for student success.  We’ve captured those items for both tests and put them here for your reference.  Feel f […]

(Stockhouse)   As Colleges Report More Applicants Submitting ACTⓇ Scores, ACT, Inc. and Kaplan Test Prep Launch ACTⓇ Kaplan Online Prep Live to Make Best-in-Class Live Teaching Accessible to All Stude […]

(Edweek) By Catherine Gewertz —

So you’d like to find out how well the class of 2016 scored on the SAT, you say? Well, have fun with that.

Normally at this time of year, we report the scores and trends for the […]

(Newswire)  Staff —

Learning Machine CEO Chris Jagers hosted a conversation about the growing role of portfolios during the college admissions process at the annual meeting of the National Association for […]

(ACT)–Achievement levels on the ACT® test went down this year compared to last year among U.S. high school graduates, but the decline was driven by a significant increase in the number and percentage of students […]

(Reuters) By Renee Dudley and Steve Stecklow–

The maker of the SAT, America’s oldest college-entrance exam, promised to streamline its new math questions and scale back the reuse of tests, a longtime practice th […]