Work in progress

Surviving Standardization

Working title

An insider's guide to admissions testing's century of over-promising and under-delivering.

For nearly a century, admission testing has presented the approximations of psychology as the precision of physics. I'm writing the book that exposes what tests actually measure, how the industry operates, and what a hundred years of deceptive precision has cost American students. The goal is to replace mythology and marketing with clarity that actually helps for anyone who wants to understand why the system works the way it does.

Why I'm the one to write it

More than thirty years of testing expertise gained working with the students who struggle most, not the ones who need the least.

I've taken five versions of the SAT, three versions of the SHSAT, the GMAT, GRE, and two versions of the LSAT. I founded a test prep company built for underserved communities, served as Director of Equity and Access at The Princeton Review, Senior Director of Advocacy at FairTest, and now serve as Director of College Advising and FAFSA Completion Implementation at SUNY. I've worked inside every part of this system. I know where the arguments are data, and where they're marketing.