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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!

  • sat vocab friday – harry potter book 2

    you may be the biggest harry potter fan ever, or you may have never read a single page of this saga of a boy wizard. i’m guessing, like 99% of people, you are somewhere in between. well, even if you are a big fan of the series, you may not have known that each of…

  • take two: what to do when taking the sat the second time around

    some students need a trial run to understand just how challenging the sat really is. taking the sat a second time is just fine, as long as you learn from past mistakes. ali sewalt, from nextstepu.com, is here with some helpful advice. when it comes to standardized testing like the sat & act, testing twice…

  • conquering right triangles & the pythagorean theorem on act math – part 2

    if you’ve read part 1 of the “conquering right triangles…” series, you’re ready to rock some more challenging act math questions with a quick “triangles” quiz! try each question on your own, then check your answer against the explanation! question #1: a right triangle with one length of 60 degrees has two leg lengths of…