Posted on: 11 Dec 2025
Princeton is the latest high-profile university to announce that it will return to requiring SAT or ACT scores from applicants, starting with the 2027-2028 admission cycle. Like many other institutions, Princeton paused their standardized testing requirements at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in part due to reduced access to testing centers. Many of those […]
Posted on: 03 Dec 2025
Earlier this fall, the federal government announced that U.S. service academies will begin accepting scores from the Classic Learning Test (CLT) beginning with the 2027 admissions cycle. While the five U.S. service academies will still accept SAT or ACT scores for their testing requirement as well, this shift marks one of the biggest gains for […]
Posted on: 07 Nov 2025
On October 1st, the U.S. Secretary of Education sent a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine universities. The administration’s proposed compact is a wide-ranging agreement between universities and the federal government, which will require universities to comply with the government’s priorities or risk losing federal funding. The response to the compact by […]
Posted on: 31 Oct 2025
A new statistic has been making the rounds over the past year: 42% of teens are now actively earning income online. While this number—2 in 5!— makes for a snappy and shocking headline, the 2024 “digital earnings report” that this stat originates from had a fairly small sample size, compared to the entirety of the […]
Posted on: 20 Oct 2025
The current government shutdown, which began on October 1st, 2025, is already one of the longest in history. While the Senate attempts to come to a bipartisan agreement on a stopgap funding bill (or “continuing resolution”), the rest of the government’s many agencies and departments have been stripped down to a skeleton crew. Not only […]
Posted on: 15 Oct 2025
There are a number of significant factors that colleges take into consideration when making admissions decisions. While the exact weighting and balance of those factors is different for every institution, academic performance is at the very top of the list. This is most recognizable as the “numbers” portion of the college application: the GPA, the […]
Posted on: 08 Oct 2025
There are plenty of pressing reasons why it might feel difficult to stay sane and centered right now, in the back half of 2025. The sheer quantity of noteworthy news seems to be ballooning every day, each item more urgent than the last. Add all of that to the daily concerns of school, work, finances, […]
Posted on: 30 Sep 2025
Why should we learn to write? This question has had a clear answer for a long time, but with the proliferation of generative AI, many have opened it up for debate again. Recent studies have shown that 80-90% of college students are using AI for academic work. As ChatGPT and other generative AI tools inch […]