“The SAT is not my friend. We just don’t get along.”
By Jesse Singal - Nov 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pmThe Boston Globe has a piece on the eternal argument over the SAT. There isn’t really anything new here, but the article is a good,…
Posts Tagged ‘standardized testing’
Baylor SAT Update
By Kay Steiger - Oct 17th, 2008 at 4:18 pmFollowing up on my earlier post on this, Baylor has decided to no longer award bookstore credit or tuition rewards to admitted freshman who retake…
Baylor Tries to Cheat on the SAT
By Kay Steiger - Oct 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pmKudos to some student reporting at Baylor University’s Lariat Online that broke a story about the school trying to buy its way to better SAT…
Rethinking the SAT
By Kay Steiger - Sep 30th, 2008 at 11:45 amYesterday Inside Higher Ed reported that The College Board, creator of the highly disputed SAT test, did its own independent analysis about college admissions and…
What Does The Harvard Dean of Admissions Know That We Don’t?
By Matt Zeitlin - Sep 25th, 2008 at 12:32 pmOne of the biggest questions surrounding standardized testing and college admissions is whether or not the results of the tests (including the SAT and ACT)…
Why the SATs Aren’t All Bad
By Jesse Singal - Sep 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 amI missed this New York Times story when it ran on Sunday:
A commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials…
Media Focus on Wrong Parts of Proposed Changes to UC Admissions Policy
By Emily Rutherford - Jul 17th, 2008 at 4:31 pmThe University of California is currently considering substantive changes to its admissions policy that would help minority and lower-income students, so naturally The Los Angeles…
