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A Visit to Boston University
The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.
From the blog:
A truly urban, residential campus fully integrated into a major city? Check.
A major research university with a small and personalized average class size of 27? Check.
A long-established university (founded in 1839) that reveres historical feats (like Alexander Graham Bell being on faculty when he invented the telephone) but constantly reinvents itself as it moves through the early stages of the twenty-first century? Check and check.
My fellow counselors discovered all of these characteristics and more when we spent the morning before the start of the spring conference of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) visiting with the folks at Boston University.Read More
Many college-bound students across America are celebrating this week what appear to be impressive results from the revised SAT. But in general the scores are not as strong as they seem at first glance.
It turns out the new test comes with a degree of score inflation. Simply put: a 1300 on the SAT is not worth as much as it used to be. Read More
