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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!

  • what are liberal arts colleges?

    well what if i told you that there is a whole breed of colleges that are neither a part of the ivy league nor are a giant state school whose sports teams feed into the nfl, mlb, etc.? this mysterious breed of colleges is referred to as liberal arts colleges!

  • sat video: how to best use two hours of study time

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyuajd1nmys studying for the sat in two hour increments it’s not easy to slip two hours of sat prep into a busy schedule. so when you do, you want to use it as effectively as possible. for many that means intensely devouring a chapter in an sat book. for others, it means learning a bunch…

  • act science: passage types

    there are three distinct passage types on the act science test: data representation, research summaries, and conflicting viewpoints. here’s how the numbers break down on most tests. in the past, there always used to be 3 data representation passages, 3 research summaries passages, and 1 conflicting viewpoints passage on each test (7 passages total). however,…