The tests elite schools and universities use to compare applicants worldwide — and how AIGA students prepare to stand out.
Selective universities and boarding schools receive applications from students with wildly different grading systems, curricula, and grade inflation standards. A standardized score is the one number they can compare fairly across every applicant, from every country — it signals readiness independent of where a student went to school.
The most widely recognized US college admissions test, scored out of 1600 across Reading & Writing and Math. Most competitive US universities use SAT scores to compare applicants against a common academic baseline.
A curriculum-based alternative to the SAT, scored 1–36, adding a Science reasoning section. Many students score better on the ACT's more straightforward question style — universities accept either test equally.
The gateway exam for admission to competitive private and boarding secondary schools. Elite schools use it to identify students ready for a rigorous, fast-paced academic environment well before university.
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