Daily Archives: October 12, 2022


Swimming in Friendlier Admissions Pools

Think higher SAT/ACT scores can’t greatly impact your or your your kid’s college list and final admissions decisions in today’s misrepresented and misunderstood “test optional” era? Oops. For various windy and partisan reasons, many educators, politicians, and business people denigrate standardized college entrance exams and minimize their actual impact on admissions decisions, but they’re wrong to do so: It’s simply not factually true for a huge range of students applying to selective and highly selective colleges. Just this fall, many CPE students, currently seniors, including a young woman from Texas and two young men from NJ and CT, now have […]