The average SAT score is up about 100 points, though Union is now an SAT-optional school, and 25% of the enrolled students didn't submit scores.
Even the well off must shine (absent a seven- or eight-figure contribution to their kid's first-choice school): Their SAT and ACT scores must be in the superior range if they are to avoid the triage performed by the most selective colleges, inundated as they are with applications.
With all that math practice, Google could probably single-handedly raise the SAT scores of all high school students.
In October, Melinda and I sat among two dozen 12th-graders at Eagle Valley High School near Vail, Colo.
In one respect it is even more extensive and demanding: AP classes are typically in one subject, targeted at only the best high school students, and designed to produce maximum results on a single year-end SAT test.
For instance, high school guidance counselors can encourage poor-performing students to take the ACT exam over the SAT exam, so that their SAT score remains high.
To better understand how Etsy supports and hires from Hacker School beyond the numbers, I sat down with one of its graduates and eventual full-time hires, Martha Kelly Girdler.
Stephen Nason, who has watched the school grow over his nearly two decades there and who co-teaches a popular class on negotiating styles, sat down with The Wall Street Journal in his Hong Kong office.
She sat for the formal, supervised, three-hour test at the University College of London medical school.
Officials at ETS, which is the nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, along with high school and college administrators, will have access to a new database containing test-takers' photos and identification information.
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