Tips to Improve Your SAT/ACT Score

Tackling the SAT or ACT test can be an intimidating task. Once you get past the initial hurdle of taking the exam, it can be equally challenging to determine the best ways to improve your scores. Here are a few tips to help make the process more manageable: 1. Familiarize yourself with the test. While [...]

PSAT Scores

Most students who took the PSAT in October will have received their scores from the exam (or will be receiving them shortly). But what is the next step? Options Solutions will be beginning our SAT/ACT prep program on January 20th, with a full length mock exam sitting, and we encourage all students (even those who [...]

SAT Score Choice: Which SAT scores do you send?

The SAT Score Choice is an SAT score-reporting policy that allows student applicants to choose which SAT scores and SAT Subject Test scores they would like to send to their universities and colleges of interest. This optional feature gives students the chance to select their best scores to send instead of having all their scores [...]

Understanding Your SAT Scores

The moment of truth has arrived: if you took the SAT on May 24, you can access your scores online. But what do all those numbers mean? Summary of Results: Each of the three sections – Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing – receives a score between 200 – 800. These numbers tell university admissions staff how [...]

A Peek into the Complex U.S. Admissions Process

The Ivy League admissions process becomes more competitive and more complicated every year. With most schools admitting less than 10 percent of applicants, many students want to know what exactly the process entails. Dartmouth College, a small liberal arts Ivy League school in New Hampshire, recently released statistics about their current incoming class. Forty percent [...]