Peter Peng

You’ve already heard, right? More and more colleges are doing away with the SAT/ACT requirement, and the list of test-optional schools is growing with about 1,100 universities/colleges currently. The college landscape has become almost unrecognizable in these 3 last months alone as we’re beginning to see the effects of the coronavirus. Virtually all American colleges and universities have become SAT/ACT test-optional for at least the upcoming round of admissions (rising seniors) because the Collegeboard and ACT Inc. have been unable […]

UPDATE: As of April 11th, 2024, many schools have started re-requiring the SAT or ACT to apply for admissions. Test-optional is no more (meaning test-required) at these schools, which include: Harvard Yale Brown Dartmouth MIT Caltech Georgetown University of Texas Austin but NOT the University of California (UC) system ORIGINAL ARTICLE: You’ve probably heard the bombshell news already: the UC schools (all 9 of them — Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, etc.) have voted unanimously to drop the SAT/ACT requirements

It’s my birthday week, and you know what would make special day even more special? If you joined me for FREE at the Dream College Summit. See, every year as I get older, my birthdays get more and more low-key. It’s not that I’ve become a grumpy, old man with nothing to celebrate. On the contrary! It’s that I’ve become more deliberate about who I choose to celebrate with. From those past birthday bashes with dozens of people (most of