How to Improve Your ACT Scores – from 21 to 36
To improve your ACT scores from 21 to 36, here are some resources to get you started: ACT English Bootcamp – a complete course covering all the grammar rules you need to know for a 36 on ACT English. Practice ACTs – 5 complete, real practice ACTs released by the test makers. Once you have your resources, you […]
Powerful Reader: an SAT & ACT Reading List
Looking to give your reading skills a boost? This guide and reading list can get you on the right track. Click here to get the SAT & ACT Reading List! Before I talk about ways to improve your reading ability over the long term, a quick piece of short term advice: If you want to […]
My Unconventional Path to an Ivy League: Part 2
In my last blog, I told you a little more about my personal college application process and offered a few suggestions for you to get started. Here, however, I’d like to tackle a related yet perhaps even more complicated topic: class rank. Before moving forward, however, I want to emphasize that we all have different […]
5 Steps to Conquering Freshman Year of High School
When I asked eighth graders about their thoughts on soon leaving middle school behind, their answers were hardly in sync. Some were giddy to enter a new campus with an abundance of courses and clubs. Others were dreading the prospect of getting pages of reading homework or spending hours studying for exams. No matter where […]
Med School Part 3: Pre-Med Post-Bacc Programs
A post-baccalaureate program allows undergraduate or graduate students to take a break for a couple of months before entering medical school in order to strengthen their medical school applications or take additional courses in their field of interest. Unlike a BS/MD or BA/MD combined program, which assures direct admission into medical school, a post-bacc program does […]