How to Approach the SAT Essay

In the old days, before the latest SAT redesign in 2015, the SAT essay assignment consisted of short, cryptic prompts, inspiring the creative student to heights of rhetorical and literary rococo. Nowadays, though, the SAT essay is all business: students are presented with a long, persuasive essay on a contemporary … 

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SAT or ACT Essay

Many universities, including recent additions the California Institute of Technology, Brown University, Princeton University, and Stanford University, have declared it optional for applicants to submit SAT or ACT essay scores. As a piece by The Editorial Board of “The Washington Post” points out, the essay portion of the SAT and … 

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The SAT Essay

While many highly selective universities no longer require the SAT essay (or the ACT essay for that matter), applicants to these schools with such low admit rates should still of course submit such scores. When admit rates hover below 10%, that which is required is irrelevant. Not submitting such a … 

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The SAT and ACT Essays Are Not Afterthoughts

“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’ … 

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Yale Drops Essay Requirement for SAT and ACT

Yale University has joined a growing list of universities across America that no longer requires the essay portion of the SAT or ACT. Yale joins such elite institutions as Harvard University and Dartmouth College. In a statement regarding no longer requiring the essay portion of the SAT or ACT of … 

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SAT Essay

As you know, the College Board’s changes to the SAT include making the SAT essay optional. But as we stated the day that the College Board announced the overhaul to the SAT, we suspect that many highly selective colleges will require that students submit the essay portion of the exam. … 

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SAT Essay Question

Frustrated by the SAT essay question this past weekend? On the most recent SAT exam, there was an essay prompt that has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. The SAT essay question related to reality television: “These shows depict ordinary people competing in everything from singing and dancing to … 

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