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Making Test-Optional Admissions Real

More than 400 colleges issue joint statement drafted by NACAC.

Kill the SAT, Ignore the Rankings, Stop Obsessing Over Elite Colleges

Focus instead on finding great colleges that your children can afford, writes Susan F. Paterno.
Opinion

University Research: A Time of Disparate Change

During the pandemic, the research ecosystem has undergone a complex transformation, which will necessitate a multifaceted response, write Peter Schiffer and Jay Walsh.

ACT Closes Registrations

It says it is responding to complaints and hopes to open them today.

The Return of the Campus Tour

Colleges say that, with changes, they can be operated safely. But many colleges are staying virtual.

The Week in Admissions News

College Board criticized over student privacy; jail time for parent; credit transfer; communicating with students.

Test-Optional Graduate Admissions

University of Miami drops GRE and GMAT from most programs.
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Opinion

Ethical College Admissions: Testing’s Existential Crisis, or Blanche Du Bois, Confederate Statues and Admission Tests

Jim Jump writes that the problems facing the SAT and ACT go beyond the usual complaints.