Olivier Knox is the son of college professors and worked in admissions as a student at his dream school. He has a 100% ...

In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay ...

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...

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Standardized testing does not hurt racial minorities, but rather it helps them, a USA TODAY columnist noted recently. Columnist Ingrid Jacques gave credit to Dartmouth College for bringing back ...

In New Jersey, for example, 90% of students choose the SAT ... The ACT also offers an optional essay, which adds an additional 40 minutes to the test. The SAT eliminated its optional essay in 2021.

IT usually takes me at least two days to finish a column, sometimes even weeks for me to think and decide on a topic that I want to write about.

High school seniors applying to four-year colleges and universities during the pandemic faced a whole new landscape — "a new planet," said Dale Leaman, University of California Irvine's executive ...

The College Board announced Jan. 19 that it will discontinue SAT Subject Tests and the optional essay section on the SAT, marking a significant change to the status quo of standardized testing in ...

The trend to deemphasize standardized tests in admissions decisions at U.S. colleges and universities moved ahead this week. The College Board, the organization that administers the tests, said it ...