by Lee Elberson | Oct 15, 2018 | Community Investment
Work, Work, Work, Work, Work – Making High School and Work Work Are you a worker? Probably so! You do homework. You try to get your brain to work early in the morning. And, many of you are actually going to work after you finish working all day at school! It can...
by Lee Elberson | Oct 14, 2018 | ACT/SAT
Do I Take the ACT or SAT? So here you are, proactively researching how to improve your SAT scores. Well done! You have taken an important first step along the path to college admission. But the journey is long and fraught with uncertainty, and the first fork in the...
by Lee Elberson | Oct 14, 2018 | ACT/SAT
More schools are going “test-optional.” Does this spell the end for test prep? Emphatically, NO! Yes, the list of schools no longer requiring standardized test scores for admission has now reached 950 institutions, 275 of them highly ranked according to U.S. News...
by Lee Elberson | Oct 14, 2018 | ACT/SAT
ACT/SAT Registration and Score Submission Strategy So you are planning to take the SAT; maybe you are planning to take the ACT. Are you unsure how to register? Are you worried that you won’t do as well as hoped? Are you confused about how schools will see your scores?...
by Lee Elberson | Oct 14, 2018 | Academic Prep, Academic Tutoring
3 tips for writing essays 1. Write way more than you need. This is an excellent tactic for improving conciseness in writing. So often students try in vain to fill up empty pages with superfluous, unneeded, over-used, clichéd, and boring phrases (much like this...
