Tag: College Admissions Tests

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Report: An SAT-Only Admissions Process Would Make Colleges Less Diverse

If America’s top 200 colleges admitted applicants based on their SAT scores alone, more than half of the enrolled students would have to leave, and those remaining, with scores higher than 1250, would be less racially diverse and slightly more affluent. That’s a key finding in  a report released this week by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

June 24, 2019

Students

ACT to Provide Complementary Breakfast to Test-Takers in Florida, Texas

The ACT has announced that it will provide free breakfast to thousands of ACT test-takers at 11 test centers in Florida and two in Texas on April 13, kick launching the next step in the organization’s long-term plan to certify that hunger does not affect students taking the test. This action will affect about 1,000 […]

April 11, 2019

Opinion

Will Whites Be Stereotyped as Corrupt Because of Felicity Huffman?

The recent bust in Boston of an organized, professionalized, high-stakes college admissions fraud operation reveals much more than the amoral conduct of the participants. The parents, who included actor Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives television fame and Oscar nominee, and William H. Macy, veteran of dozens of movies, were willing to pay into the millions of dollars for ringers to take standardized tests for their children or to gin up false evidence of athletic potential.

March 14, 2019

Students

Report: Is Guaranteed Admissions Effective in Developing Diverse Class?

In a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association, researchers evaluated whether admissions certainty for Texas high school graduates has different effects on high- and low-income students.

December 10, 2018

Students

Georgetown Researchers Find Disparities in Access to Elite Public Colleges

New research released Tuesday from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) found that “misguided admissions practices” and inequality in funding are splitting the public higher education system into two separate and unequal tracks.

November 13, 2018

Students

Geographical Bias in Testing: Is Cultural Bias a Problem of the Past or Are We Simply Not Looking in the Right Space?

Despite the recent emergence of test optional and/or test flexible programs, wherein students do not need to, or can decide whether they want to submit their standardized test scores such as SAT/ACT for admission consideration, these standardized admission tests continue to play an important role in college choice, access, and admission decisions.

September 17, 2018