The first step on your journey to a notable medical career is to attend a notable medical program.  While there are hundreds of medical schools in the United States, you will increase your chances of future success by attending a reputable school that offers the resources, instructors, and hands-on experience you need to jumpstart your career. Although you will also want to consider which program best suits your personal needs…

When you take the SAT or the ACT, you will encounter some statistics questions on the math sections. These questions typically ask you to find the mean, median, or mode of a data set. To earn a perfect score on the SAT or ACT Math sections, it is critical that you know the definitions of these terms as well as how to calculate them in a short amount of time.…

The Ivy League schools have a reputation for being some of the most prestigious, and most selective, schools in the nation. If you have set your sights on Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, or Yale University, you’ll have your work cut out for you. Here are the acceptance rates for these Ivy League schools in 2022 (some colleges have…

As they keep up with rising inflation costs, many colleges and universities have had to start considering financial aid when making admissions decisions. Unlike need-blind colleges, which do not factor in a student’s ability to pay tuition when making admissions decisions, need aware colleges take this factor into consideration. Students who are going to have to rely on financial aid packages to attend a school will cost the college more…

Colleges consider a variety of factors when making admissions decisions. Like most students, you’re probably no stranger to the fact that colleges will weigh your gpa, standardized test scores, letters of recommendation, and extracurricular activities when you apply for admission.  However, what many students don’t realize is that colleges also consider your ability to pay tuition, too. Tuition is a major source of funding for colleges and universities, so there…

When you start looking at application requirements for different colleges and universities, you will notice that many of them have both early action and regular decision deadlines. As the name suggests, early action deadlines are always sooner than regular decision deadlines, which can make some students question when to submit their applications to have the best chance of admission. While most of these colleges acknowledge that submitting your application before…

Whether you take the SAT or the ACT, you are going to need to be comfortable with multiplying fractions.  You will see many questions that require you to not only understand how fractions work, but also be able to multiply these fractions within a limited amount of time.  On the SAT Math sections, you will have 75 seconds per question for the Math (No Calculator) section, and 87 seconds per…

If your sights are set on attending an ivy league school, you will want to score within the 99th percentile on the SAT or ACT.  While it’s possible to earn an 800 on the SAT Math section or to get a perfect score on the ACT Math section, doing so will require you to have a strong understanding of how to read and interpret graphs.  Both the SAT Math section…

Whether you’re trying to score in the 99th percentile on the SAT or ACT, you’re trying to get an “A” in your English class, or you’re revising your essays for your college applications, you’ll need to know about prepositional phrases. When you have a strong command of prepositional phrases, you will be sure to score higher on Writing and Language tests and many of your grammar quizzes in high school.…

If you are an international student, the SAT is going to look a little different for you this spring.  Starting in 2023, international students will be taking the new, online version of the SAT, which comes with a few changes. Key changes on the 2023 SAT While the SAT will still be used to measure your college readiness, and the test will still be scored out of 1600, there are…