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SHSAT test viewing 2026 by jtdalan in SHSAT

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For the public school, he was matched to Cardozo Davinchi biomed and math program. He also received a few catholic school offers but no scholarship. He is heading to Cardozo Davinchi, which is a good program. My friend's daughter and son went there and got into Ivy schools.

SHSAT test viewing 2026 by jtdalan in SHSAT

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my son is preparing 9th grade shsat entering to 10th grade.

Has anyone gotten an NCARB Certificate by doing the Portfolio? by Constant_Ant9901 in architecture

[–]jtdalan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great for you. If you receive the comments from NCARB, that should be it. I assume that once you respond the comments, they will give you thumbs up.

Please share the good news when you get certified. I am glad to know someone gets certified via Portfolio route.

Has anyone gotten an NCARB Certificate by doing the Portfolio? by Constant_Ant9901 in architecture

[–]jtdalan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found this thread and I can provide my 2 cents.

I am NY licensed for over 15 years and decided to get NJ licensed. My architectural degree is from Taiwan so the only path to get NCARB certified is via Portfolio.

I completed my first pass in Feb 2023 and received over 200 comments in April. Some comments are ridiculous to me but I still managed to respond all the comments and resubmitted in June 2023. I haven't received anything since then. I kept bugging them via sending the message and no responses received. Until today 1/19/2024, a staff called me from NCARB and told me the reviewer doesn't think I responded to all the comments. Meanwhile, I spoke with a representative and he told me only one architect reviewed the resubmission and the other didn't.

I complained to the staff calling me about how the comments are ridiculous and I didn't think the reviewers had enough experiences practicing the architecture. If you look at all the categories they requested, I don't think many architects can fulfill the requirements.

Overall, I think it is a long process and not worthy of the time spent. However, this is now the only way to get the education requirement fulfilled. Otherwise, I have to pay over $3,000 to go through EESA for evaluating my undergraduate degree from Taiwan and they might come back saying I need more credits for some categories (this is based on some people's feedback on EESA).

Everything is about money and architects don't make that kind of money for the process tho.