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What does AISAP do ?

AISAP does many wonderful things ! In 2005 , AISAP , the Association of Independent School Admission Professionals , was formed to meet the advancing needs of admission and enrollment management staff members at private schools . We started with 63 founding schools and now have over 700 member schools and 6,000 individual members – not just from independent schools .

We support all private and faith-based schools with our professional development programs , our career center , our consultancy services , our new certification program in conjunction with Vanderbilt University , and at our annual institute . Next year , in July 2017 , our institute will be in San Juan Capistrano , California , please come join us !

Learn more about AISAP at www . aisap . org

ACT & SAT Scores are Relevant to Admission Officers

Sharing academic performance data during the admissions process is a great way to show the value of private education to prospective families . Here are some ACT and SAT data points from the Council of Academic non-Public Education ( CAPE ):

According to the recently released data from ACT , private school students are more likely to be prepared for college than their public school counterparts .

2015 ACT Stats on graduates who have met or exceeded college readiness benchmarks .

Subject Private School Readiness Public School Readiness

The SAT mean scores for 2015 graduates from independent schools exceeded the previously set College and Career Readiness Benchmark of 1550 .

The mean combined score for independent school seniors was 1649 , up 99 points over the benchmark , as compared to public school seniors with a mean combined score of 1462 , 88 points below the standard .

On the 2014-15 SAT National Scores

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