Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Welcome to THE college admissions industry podcast! Join Mike Bergin and Amy Seeley as they discuss the latest issues in testing, admissions, learning, and education with leading experts.
Tests and the Rest is perfect for parents, students, counselors, educators, test prep professionals, college consultants, and just about anyone engaged in the college admissions process. You can subscribe to this podcast or stream it online via any podcast app, including iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn Radio.
YOUR HOSTS
Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros and Leap.
Between the two of us, expect over 60 years of industry insight, expertise, insider news, and a bit of sarcasm.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 673
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
553. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE GRE IN 2024 with educator Vince Kotchian
The GRE General Test may be the world’s most widely used admissions test for graduate & professional school, which makes the assessment important to anyone considering graduate, business, or law scho…
552. RESOURCES FOR THE DIGITAL SAT
A new test creates new opportunities and requires new study aids. Now that the SAT has gone digital, where should students and educators be looking for prep and practice material? Amy and Mike invite…
551. HOW TO CHOOSE A COLLEGE COUNSELOR
Considering how exponentially complex the college admissions process has become in the last decade, the decision to work with an independent college counselor makes sense. The bigger question is, “Wh…
550. STATE OF TEST OPTIONAL ADMISSIONS IN 2024
In the wake of the 2020 global pandemic, every U.S college and university announced test-optional or test-blind admissions, leading some pundits to predict that the influence of standardized test sco…
549. TEST PREP PROFILE: Jeffrey Dalton
Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry?
MEET OUR GUEST
Meet Jeffrey Dalton, who graduated from New York University in 2006 with …
548. TEST PREP PROFILE: Anna Moss
Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry?
MEET OUR GUEST
Meet Anna Moss, the founder of Mind the Test LLC, a tutoring company that…
547. TEST PREP PROFILE: Ari Freuman
Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry?
MEET OUR GUEST
Meet Ari Freuman, the Founder and Lead Tutor at Ivy Tutor. He began his t…
546. TEST PREP PROFILE: Nikki Rooks
Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry?
MEET OUR GUEST
Meet Nikki Rooks, a lifelong learner with a love for helping students bui…
545. TEST PREP PROFILE: Paul Oberman
Ready to learn the history, philosophy, and practice of an experienced professional in the test prep industry?
MEET OUR GUEST
Meet Paul Oberman, who has been involved with education since 1989 as a t…
544. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE BETTER FAFSA
The most massive revision ever to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid burst into the new year like a brick through a window–everyone is talking about it, but nobody is happy. Amy and Mike in…
543. COLLEGE READINESS ADVICE FROM A COLLEGE PROFESSOR
Too many students think that getting into a college implies a guarantee that they’ll be successfully getting out with a degree. Reality suggests otherwise, but teens can tilt the odds in their favor …
542. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: Anti-Boring Learning Lab
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: Anti-Boring Learning Lab
The community of educators obsessed with sharing the science-backed study skills and executive function strategies every student needs to thrive with educa…
541. NAVIGATING THE COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ADMISSIONS
The various flavors of computer science and engineering majors tend to be among the most popular and potentially lucrative for incoming students. No wonder they’ve also become some of the most select…
540. HOW TENNIS AND TEST PREP ARE SIMILAR
Billie Jean King described tennis as a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. In a lot of ways, taking a high-stakes exam feels the same way. Amy an…
539. HOW CAN TUTORS USE AI?
Every innovation in technology eventually impacts education, yet artificial intelligence already seems poised to transform the way people learn and teach at every level. Amy and Mike invited technolo…
538. ALL ABOUT DIGITAL SAT READING & WRITING
The digital SAT may look like the future of standardized admissions tests, but the exam continues a long tradition of verbal priorities. The more things change, the more they stay the same! Amy and M…
537. WHAT DO TRULY TEST OPTIONAL COLLEGES FOCUS ON?
Admissions factors in college applications often boil down to grades plus tests and then the rest. What happens when the influence of standardized scores is minimized or entirely excluded? Amy and Mi…
536. ALL ABOUT THE AMERICAN MATH COMPETITION
Mathematics is one of the fundamental tools for understanding the universe, nothing less than the science and study of quality, structure, space, and change. That doesn’t mean, though, that we can’t …
535. MAKING TIME VISIBLE
Bill Watterson observed that there is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. With the right scheduling habits, though, maybe there can be. Amy and Mike invited educator Rebecca Rauscher…
534. CHOOSING BETWEEN THE DIGITAL SAT AND THE ACT
Now that college admissions is moving back into a test-preferred environment, students don’t have to struggle with the choice of whether or not to take a college entrance exam but rather which one. A…