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Advice for Juniors, Testing

The New Landscape of College Admissions Testing

There’s no question that the current pandemic is affecting the world of college admissions. It’s affecting the landscape of our entire education system. But one of the more confusing fallouts is the role testing (ACT, SAT, AP and Subject Tests) will play in the college admission process. In this blog post, we will update you as best we can and offer advice to confused students and parents.

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Admissions, Financial Aid, Testing

New Offering from Campus Bound: Free Webinars!

Campus Bound is excited to present a series of webinars dedicated to helping families better understand and navigate the college search, application and financial process.   


How often have you wanted to attend to a presentation?  Indeed, you intended to go, but then, at the last minute, couldn’t make it.  Or, you wanted to go but had a conflict with kids’ sports or other commitments.  Adding salt to the wound, you hear from friends how great it was. And even though they offer to share their notes with you, it isn’t the same as hearing it firsthand. How nice that webinars solve that problem… a presentation that can be viewed from your home, your office, virtually anywhere at all. You’ll be able to ask questions and hear other questions and, it’s recorded so you can view it multiple times. 

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Advice for Juniors, Advice for Seniors, Testing

If You Think Your SAT or ACT Score is Wrong, It Just Might Be

This time of year, Campus Bound counselors are working with juniors around the college exploration process. Putting together a solid college list and visiting schools is at the top of the priority list.  But while that’s going on, juniors are also studying hard to earn good grades in their classes, and taking standardized exams like the SAT and ACT.  And the scores are coming in.  But, what happens when you get your score back and it doesn’t seem right?

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Testing

Superscoring… All You Need to Know

What is Superscore? 

Superscoring is a policy some schools have by which they will consider a student’s highest section scores from any test date of the same test.  Many students take college admission tests more than once.  If a college superscores, they will take the highest scores from Reading & Writing, and Math (from the SAT, for example) to calculate a new total score.

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Testing

Guest Blog by My Guru: You Can Improve! How a growth mindset benefits students taking the ACT/SAT

Have you heard of the term growth mindset? It’s a powerful concept that can apply to many facets of our lives: personal, academic, and professional. The term was coined by Carolyn Dweck in her 2011 bestseller Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, and in it she explores the vast differences between perfectionism, absolutism, and black and white thinking that often accompany a fixed mindset versus acquiring a more open, resilient, persevering growth mindset. Read More

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