The March administration of the SAT in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco has been canceled. And why? For security purposes. Apparently, ETS, the administrator of College Board’s SAT, received a tip that an advance copy of the exam was available for purchase in the Middle East. It wouldn’t make sense …
Yesterday, we wrote about how College Board, the maker of the AP exams, announced plans to move up the registration deadline for AP exams beginning next year. As reported Jim Jump for “Inside Higher Ed” in a piece entitled “Ethical College Admissions: AP Registration,” “Whereas registration for the May AP …
The College Board, the maker of the Advanced Placement exams, has changed its AP registration deadline. AP exams, as our readers likely know, are administered in May of each year. For our students who choose to take AP exams that their high schools may not be anticipating they take (e.g., …
As more and more colleges drop the SAT or ACT as a requirement for admission — with the University of Chicago’s decision to drop the requirement being the most high profile of the bunch — a university president has spoken out on why his school won’t be dropping the requirement …
It should come as little surprise to our readers that we take no issue with College Board’s fees. College Board is an American business. The company can charge whatever they’d like in our free market economy. We do, however, take issue with charging students for exams that they don’t need …
Many students and parents have expressed outrage over the scoring of the June SAT exam. You see, students who answered fewer incorrect questions on the June exam as compared to the May exam were surprised — and rather disappointed — to learn that their June scores were lower than their …
“The Washington Post” is the elite of the elite when it comes to print journalism. “The Washington Post” broke Watergate thanks to the efforts of its intrepid reporters, Woodward and Bernstein. “The Washington Post” boldly published the classified “Pentagon Papers” at great risk to the paper, exposing the Unites States’ …
The test scores of applicants to test-optional colleges don’t matter, right? Wrong. Of course test scores matter to test-optional schools. Sure, the University of Chicago may have recently gone test-optional but you don’t think it’ll help a student’s case for admission to submit a perfect or near-perfect SAT or ACT …
Princeton University and Stanford University both announced that they will be dropping the SAT and ACT essay requirement for admission. Yale made a similar move about a month ago. Stanford’s new policy will take effect for students who apply to the university beginning in the fall of 2019. Princeton’s new …
For the last 16 years, the College Board’s AP World History curriculum has covered over 10,000 years of our shared human history. Bur recently, the College Board announced that much of this human history would no longer be part of the curriculum, that the curriculum would be changed to begin …
