What is the SSAT?

SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) is a U.S. secondary school entrance exam. It was born in 1957, by the United States private secondary schools of the ten school alliance, that is, known as the "Little Ivy" known as the ten high-quality famous schools: Phillips Exeter, Choate Rosemary Hall, Andover Academy, The Hill School , Lawrenceville School, Deerfield Academy, Taft School, St. Paul's School, Hotchkiss, and Loomis Chaffee School. At the time, the competition for admission was so high that these schools needed a uniform test to more fairly measure and compare students. The SSAT was born: nine schools in the 10-school consortium invested in the creation of the Council of American Secondary Schools and partnered with ETS to develop the SSAT. As the founders of the SSAT, these schools have been closely associated with the Council, and their admissions applications require students to submit their SSAT scores as part of the assessment.

In addition to the ten U.S. schools mentioned above, the SSAT is now also used for admission to many high-quality private secondary schools around the world, and is especially a must-have test score for applying to high-quality private secondary schools in the United States and Canada. The SSAT is a fair and effective tool used by schools to evaluate applicants, and it is also a threshold that must be passed by young Chinese students in their pursuit of quality education in the United States and Canada.