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author: debbie schwartz

debbie schwartz
debbie schwartz is the founder of road2college, a website with unbiased information on college admissions and financing. she likes to focus on helping families understand how to use data to better research and target colleges that are more affordable. debbie has an mba and worked in financial services before turning her attention to the college admissions process. besides college admissions and numbers, she’s a longtime yogini and loves tennis!

  • cracking the act english code: usage and mechanics (part 1)

    with today’s smartphone-driven jargon, it is easy to lose sight of the foundational grammar upon which the rich english language is built: a texting dialogue filled with acronyms, sentence fragments, abbreviations and emojis doesn’t exactly hold us accountable for remembering these rules. unfortunately, the act still does. with that, let’s take a look at the…

  • tuesdact video: how to have a great act test day

      we’ve all had really bad days, and we all hope these really bad days are not going to overlap with really important days: graduation, prom, driver’s license tests, and, of course, act test day. things are likely never going to be exactly as you envisioned on test day, but you can help minimize the…

  • the act: a history lesson

    all you magooshers are becoming familiar with how to conquer the act: its format, its timing, its array of questions. but how much do you know about the origins of the act- or what it even stands for? time for a pop quiz!   the origin of the act prior to 1959, the sat (the…