While the 20%-50% revenue increases tutoring companies enjoyed in Fall 2015 are now squarely in the past, a number of folks have expressed concern that overall business is declining. Phones have quieted, demand has slowed, and anxiety has begun to surface among some of the test prep community. Theories abound over exactly why this […]
Read More »(New York Times) By Mike McPhate. As the news rippled across the web last week that a Long Island student had won admission to all eight Ivy League universities, thousands of people reacted with messages of praise. But when Peter Kang, a high school senior in Chantilly, Va., saw a New York Times article last week about […]
Read More »(The Atlantic) By Alia Wong. In 2011, close to 200 higher-education professionals from selective institutions across the country gathered at the University of Southern California to come up with a plan to reshape college admissions. “The values and behaviors this system signals as important, and its tendency to reward only a narrow band of students,” a report on […]
Read More »By Andy Torbett More parents than ever are turning to homeschooling as an alternative to enrolling their children in failing government schools, and colleges and universities are now adapting their admissions processes to better accommodate homeschooled children’s unique backgrounds and skills. Data from the U.S. Department of Education suggest the number of homeschooled children […]
Read More »By Jennifer Wallace & Lisa Heffernan (New York Times). While most parents find the college process stressful and bewildering, we interviewed some who have a unique perspective: admissions officers who are also the parents of teenagers and college students themselves. They know that while parents can’t control where their child is admitted, they can influence […]
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