Sound impossible? It’s not. In fact, two of our sophomores recently did. Another one came very close. That’s three sophomores from Improve Your English with perfect or near-perfect scores. Savannah (we’ve changed all the names) scored 800 Reading and 800 Writing (2400 total). Even more impressive? She did it early in her sophomore year, atRead More
Admitted to Columbia, Not to Berkeley: California’s Top Students Face a New Challenge
Really? Admitted to Columbia, Cornell, Tufts, and Pomona–but not UC Berkeley? This happened to an IYE college counseling student. She was admitted to top private colleges, but not to the top UC. Such cases are becoming more and more common. For California students, UC admissions have become increasingly unpredictable. Here’s why: California is giving lessRead More
How a 7th-grader Mastered 492 New Vocabulary Words
At Improve Your English, what does a year’s worth of vocab look like? For one of our seventh-graders, last year, it looked like this. Between June 2015 and June 2016, the student learned and was tested on these 492 words (many of them with multiple definitions). They were all taken from her weekly reading. TryRead More
