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Jon Boeckenstedt's Admissions Weblog. Prologue: I once worked with someone who held an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University. He could not calculate percentage change. This was a smart person.
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What if the SAT is the cause of our math problems, rather than the solution to them?
Prologue: I once worked with someone who held an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University. He could not calculate percentage change. This was a smart person. He had gone to an august undergraduate institution (I no longer use the word "elite"), worked
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Grandma Boeckenstedt's Molasses Cookie Recipe
A non-business, personal post. This was a family favorite growing up. My paternal grandmother, Agnes Boeckenstedt (1887-1981) made molasses cookies that were a local favorite, based on comments my father made. She had ten kids, and would apparently make t
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Recalling Sinclair Lewis
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Sinclair Lewis I'm not going to debate the value of standardized tests in admissions. I'm not going to go over the research that shows difference
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The Ivy League Re-Adopts the SAT. And that's a good thing.
April 1, 2025 In the years post-pandemic, several of the Ivy League institutions (along with their shadowed, loosely defined cousins, the "Ivy Plus" universities) have re-instituted their policy of requiring the SAT for admission. I have said several time
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You say you want a Revolution? Sure. $300.
This is one of those posts where I'm trying to figure out where to start, and which direction to take it. So let's just start with the facts. ACT and Revolution Prep yesterday announced a "strategic" partnership that makes the latter one of the former's "
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