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author: maddi lee

maddi lee
maddi is currently a high school junior in southern california. she is an avid freelance writer and has been featured in multiple literary publications and anthologies. when she isn’t writing, she loves traveling, doodling, and most of all, sleeping. through her own experience and passion, she hopes to help guide fellow students through the roller coaster that is sat and college admissions…that is, as long as she survives the journey herself!

  • act compass: how to prepare

    due to a decline in popularity, act phased out its compass exam at the end of 2016. that being said, act compass will remain an important exam for colleges and universities for the next twelve months and may be replaced by a similar exam in the future. the most well-known act test is (of course)…

  • complete guide to act question types

    we have a lot of great stuff on our blog here about the act’s question types, but not all in one place! so here’s your complete guide to all of the question types that appear on the act exam, with links to sample questions (with video and text explanations for the answers) and more help!…

  • retaking the sat

    studying for an sat retake first off, you need to ask yourself: what could i have done better. now i’m not talking about a catch-all explanation (“i was tired” or “my pacing was off”). i want you to think of this as a crime-scene investigation, the kind you see in t.v. procedurals in which every…