The College Board and ACT have released a full schedule of testing dates for the upcoming academic year. This is a return to “normal” after last year saw many test dates cancelled or at limited capacity due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As college counselors, we are often asked, “Which test should I take?” The answer is, all colleges will…
This morning the College Board made two big announcements in the world of college admissions: for students in the U.S., both the SAT Subject Tests and the SAT essay writing section will be discontinued. At International College Counselors, we’ve been hearing rumors for a while, and today College Board made it official. There were 20…
So far, 2020 has proven to be a year of big changes, and the college admissions process is no different. Some pieces of the application that used to be required are now optional, and what colleges mean by “optional” needs further explanation and clarification. What “test optional” means Test optional means just that: it is…
Each new day of the COVID-19 crisis brings changes. However, what doesn’t change is International College Counselors’ commitment to delivering dedicated service and the latest news to our families. Standardized testing options have particularly been impacted by the pandemic. Listed here are the most recent updates from the world of testing. SAT: The College Board…
The College Board (the nonprofit company that administers the SAT) announced it will provide an Environmental Context Dashboard (ECD) or what the media has labeled an “adversity score” to every SAT score report it sends to colleges in 2020. The ECD index will place students’ SAT scores in the context of their socioeconomic advantages or disadvantages. Factors that go…