Tech Issue on the March SAT
On Saturday, many students experienced a technical issue with the March SAT. While College Board hasn’t provided 100% transparency about...
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A blog where Ivy Experience disentangles college admissions.Ivy Experience’s Spring Webinar Schedule 2025
We are excited to announce our full schedule of webinars this spring! See below for topics, dates, and registration links....
PSAT Scores Have Been Released: What Next?
How can you use your 10th or 11th grade student’s PSAT score to make a test prep plan? Read this...
Ivy Experience’s Fall 2024 Webinar Schedule
We are excited to announce our full schedule of webinars this fall! See below for topics, dates, and registration links....
Big Changes to the ACT Coming Spring 2025
ACT has dropped a bombshell announcement of three major changes to the test coming to the National test dates in...
Ivy Experience’s Spring Webinar Schedule
We are excited to announce our full schedule of webinars this spring! See below for topics, dates, and registration links....
SAT/ACT Accommodations
We have always preached that knowing how to navigate the college preparation process is essential to saving families time, energy,...
Why Diagnostic Testing Makes All the Difference: A Story
Let us you tell you a story… The following is a personal reflection by Ivy Experience co-founder Eric Karlan. Growing...
Why Choose Ivy Experience?
Ivy Experience works with students at every phase of their high school journey and college preparation process. We work closely...
5 Questions with Jim Wismer
Get to know our test prep team! We sat down to interview our Director, Jim Wismer! What were you looking...
5 Questions with David Pauls
Get to know our test prep team! We sat down to interview David Pauls, our Curriculum Development Specialist. What is...
5 Questions with Torie Berke
Get to know our test prep team! We sat down to interview Torie Berke, our Coordinator of Tutoring! What was...
Everything You Need to Know about the Digital SAT
College Board announced in January that the SAT is going digital. Starting for U.S. students in the spring of 2024,...
SAT Announces New Digital Format Starting in 2024
The College Board has announced this morning that they are launching a computer-based version of the SAT starting in March...
Test-Optional Policies: What Juniors Need to Know
With the spread of “test-optional” policies nationwide, the term itself has become broadly used and widely misinterpreted. In this post,...
What is Superscoring?
As you research a college and its application process, you may find a passage that defines the school’s score choice...
What to Do Before the SAT or ACT
We get it: the ACT and SAT can be terrifying tests. Students spend days, weeks, and months preparing for them....
What Is the Experimental Section?
You made your way through four hours of standardized testing, whether the SAT or ACT. Maybe you are reviewing your...
Standardized Testing Outline: Grades 9-12
Below is a concise guide to testing for each year of high school, along with some basic advice for each...
How Does Online Tutoring Work?
Though we have worked in person with families in the Philadelphia and San Diego areas, many of our families only...
Test-Optional Policies: What Do They Mean?
Before COVID-19, there were already more than 1,000 colleges and universities that were test-optional. But with so many institutions changing...
ACT Online Testing, Section Retesting, and Superscore Reporting
ACT announced three new policy changes today. Below is a summary of the changes, effective starting September 2020. ACT Online...
Test Anxiety Conversation
Listen to Ivy Experience Director Jim Wismer and Academic Coach Gail Slogoff discuss test anxiety, including causes, symptoms, and strategies...
The ACT is Shifting to Computer-Based Testing
The ACT has had plans to shift to a computer-based testing format for years. For the 2018-2019 school year, all...
How ACT Scores are Calculated
People are often confused by the ACT’s scoring system. Out of 36? How the heck does that work? Sometimes the scoring...
Ivy Experience Founders Analyze the Recent ACT
Ivy Experience’s founders, Eric Karlan and Karan Shah, tackled the most recently released ACT to offer insight on its contents relative...
Changes to ACT Writing scoring; New August SAT date!
The ACT has changed the Writing test back to a 2-12 scoring scale. Meanwhile the SAT will start August test dates in 2017!