A few weeks later, Ben Dormus received his new SAT scores from the College Board. His math score—which went down, remember, when he studied with Khan Academy—had, with Ned’s help, gone up by 110 points, from 560 (out of 800) to 670. That catapulted Ben from about the sixty-fifth percentile nationally to the ninetieth percentile. And that did the trick. The following month, Yale admitted Ben to its undergraduate class of 2021. He would be attending his dream school. His life had changed.
