This week, the College Board announced changes to the way it administers its standardized tests to university applicants in the United States. The board is dropping the optional essay component of the ...

While not required/recommended by all NJ colleges, it is for Rutgers, TCNJ, Rowan and others The ACT likewise offers an optional essay that is required by some, but not all, colleges In re-designing ...

WASHINGTON — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away ...

High school students across the country, rejoice: the dreaded third section of the SAT, the essay portion, will soon cease to be a required segment of the nearly four-hour-long exam. This change, ...

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “College Aid” written by Sandra Moore, a former college admissions director and founder and principal of Next Step College Counseling, who provides ...

The College Board on Tuesday announced that it is killing the SAT Subject Tests and the SAT essay. Most experts said the College Board had little choice but to make the changes. The board also ...

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary and will return to the familiar 1600-point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open ...

WASHINGTON » Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away ...

We may be about to test that hypothesis. Last week the Harvard University admissions office announced that applicants will no longer be required to submit the essay portion from the SAT or ACT.

The biggest shift in the new SAT is not that the test will no longer require an essay or penalize students for wrong answers — it's that the entire focus of the exam will change, to the benefit of ...

A Duke University student tour leads a group of undergraduate prospects on a tour of West Campus. Duke University announced Friday that it will no longer require the SAT essay or ACT writing scores ...