Test Prep General

UPDATE: As of April 11th, 2024, many schools have started re-requiring the SAT or ACT to apply for admissions. Test-optional is no more (meaning test-required) at these schools, which include: Harvard Yale Brown Dartmouth MIT Caltech Georgetown University of Texas Austin but NOT the University of California (UC) system ORIGINAL ARTICLE: You’ve probably heard the bombshell news already: the UC schools (all 9 of them — Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, etc.) have voted unanimously to drop the SAT/ACT requirements […]

It’s my birthday week, and you know what would make special day even more special? If you joined me for FREE at the Dream College Summit. See, every year as I get older, my birthdays get more and more low-key. It’s not that I’ve become a grumpy, old man with nothing to celebrate. On the contrary! It’s that I’ve become more deliberate about who I choose to celebrate with. From those past birthday bashes with dozens of people (most of

What’s it take to get into Stanford, MIT, Harvard, the rest of the Ivy League, or other dream schools? It’s about pursuing the right extracurriculars …even if you think you don’t have time and are already a senior…even if you believe you aren’t good at anything Table of Contents (click to jump to section) So You Want to Get Into the Ivy League, Huh? Do you dream of waltzing through those majestic iron wrought gates at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, one of the other