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Do Colleges Rescind Your Admissions?

IB exams JUST ended and ISC Board results are already out! While we eagerly await the CBSE Board results at the end of this month, you begin to wonder, “Were your exams good enough?” After working like a crazy person in high school, taking the SAT’s / ACT’s and finally receiving your college acceptance letter, […]

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New SAT Concordance Tables Are Out!

See below for a snapshot. For greater detail, check out the College Board page here. CONCORDANCE TABLE New SAT Total Score (400-1600) Old SAT Total Score (600-2400) ACT Composite Score 1600 2390 36 1590 2370 35 1580 2350 35 1570 2330 35 1560 2300 35 1550 2280 34 1540 2260 34 1530 2230 34 1520 […]

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Is IB the ticket to the Ivy League?

IB vs. CBSE vs. ICSE, which is the better board “We want to send our child to the US, so we put him in IB.” Now is that logic really sound? And really, in the debate of “Which board to take you Abroad,” who emerges the victor? In the last few weeks in particular, we’ve […]

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To AP or not to AP

If Hamlet was applying to College today, he’d sure as hell be going through the dilemma. Of course, this contemplation would be in between visitations from his dearly departed ghost dad, his distracting depressed girlfriend, managing his kingdom and SAT / ACT prep classes and extracurriculars. For the uninitiated, AP stands for Advanced Placement, an […]

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Why not India?

Is it possible to have zillions of concepts in your mind but still be uneducated? Uh…? Is brain drain after high school worse than brain drain after college? After all there are as many articles complaining about students who go for undergrad as IIT-ians and IIM grads going to US Companies each year! That’s true… […]

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