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How to Approach the SAT Essay

December 10, 2018

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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The SAT Essay

August 8, 2018

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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Writing Section of SAT

August 29, 2015

All in favor? All opposed? The Ivy League is in session. You may have read an article recently on the pages of the University of Pennsylvania’s newspaper, “The Daily Pennsylvanian” on the topic of the SAT’s optional essay. Ivy Coach is referenced extensively in the piece. Penn recently removed the …

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How to Approach the SAT Essay

The SAT Essay

Writing Section of SAT