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Looking to take (or re-take) the all-new digital, adaptive SAT and/or the ACT? Varsity Vine has you covered! 

While it is true that many colleges are test optional these days, strong ACT/SAT scores can strengthen a college admissions’ application and set applicants apart, helping students receive acceptances – and even scholarships – for the schools they most want to attend.

While some colleges and universities are test-blind like the UCs, many other popular colleges still require standardized testing, including many of the United States military academies, international universities, and domestic universities such as Brown University, Dartmouth College, Florida State, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, MIT, University of Florida, University of Georgia, and UT Knoxville. Many others are strongly test-preferred or test-flexible, including Auburn University. In addition, some scholarships do not allow a superscore – they want to see the highest single-sitting score you have. And once you are enrolled in college and feel like you are past all the testing hurdles, your ACT/SAT sub-scores might even be considered in course enrollment. Unless you are heading to a test-blind university, it’s always great to have a solid score in your back pocket for many reasons.

However, the testing landscape has literally shifted overnight. 

The SAT and ACT have has changed its format many times over the years, and they are changing yet again! SAT is did roll out a new digital, adaptive test format in the U.S. market starting this March 2024, and the ACT introduced a shorter test (with a science optional section) starting April 2025 in select markets.

Varsity Vine is one of very few companies that has actual experience with these new digital, adaptive tests. Our in-house specialist, Brooke Wurst, has already been busy tutoring and working with international students who have been taking this new adaptive test format abroad, where it first rolled out last year. Brooke’s many years of experience plus familiarity with these new testing changes places her at the very forefront of understanding the new digital, adaptive SAT and ACT. She understands better than almost anyone in the tutoring industry what this new adaptive testing looks like and will guide your student towards personal success. Brooke can also tutor for the SSAT, ISEE, MCAT (verbal), GMAT, GRE, TOEFL, as well as AP and university-level coursework. 

New to our team, Julia Fremberg also specializes in virtual tutoring for the SAT, helping dozens of students across the country raise their scores.

Let’s start climbing that SAT/ACT Varsity Vine together!

An inventor and patent-holder, Brooke invented new mobile biometric technology that has increased access to health and social services to more than 25 million vulnerable individuals around the world and invented a geolocating SMS delivery platform to ensure accurate information about nearby health services is available to low-resource communities – now serving more than 60 million individuals across sub-Saharan Africa. She is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist on topics at the intersection of public health, technology, international development, sport for development, and social justice. Brooke received her B.A. with Honors in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at University of Pennsylvania; M.S. in Journalism, Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University; Advanced Graduate work in Literature at Harvard University (ALM, all but thesis); Specialization in Business Strategy, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; Certification in Impact Management and Measurement for the SDGs, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; and studied Literature and Fine Arts at Oxford University. Outside of work, Brooke is a musician (and former music critic) who enjoys playing guitar and bass, certified open water diver, certified skydiver, surfer, and recovering comedy writer.