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The Real Deal with High School Placement Exams
For admission to Chicago’s top high schools, a high school placement exam must be completed. Selective Enrollment High Schools (SEHS), such as Walter Payton and Whitney Young, require the CPS SEHS High School Admissions [...]
College Entrance Exams: ACT versus SAT
With some exceptions, nearly every college accepts either the ACT or the SAT. Be that as it may, most students do much better on one test than the other. Therefore, I recommend that students [...]
College Application Essays
Generally speaking, most colleges consider GPA, extracurricular involvements, letters of recommendation, essay responses, and ACT/SAT scores equally important, each contributing roughly 20% to the application’s strength. As such, it is important to continuously think [...]