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
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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
