The number of bachelor-degree granting colleges and universities that will be using ACT/SAT-optional, test-blind, or score-free admission procedures for fall 2023 now exceeds 1,900 institutions ...

If you work long enough in education, you see that most academic trends swing through extreme phases like a pendulum. College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized ...

Last week the U.S. Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter that warned colleges and universities that they could lose federal funding if they considered race in any of a broad range ...

The SAT, accepted by almost all of the nearly 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S., may have some growing competition. The Classic Learning Test (CLT) has proved quite the competitor against ...

Colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that they hurt diversity. That’s not what the research shows. Credit...Photo Illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By David Leonhardt David ...

High school seniors have a lot to consider when applying for colleges, including whether to submit their ACT or SAT scores. A majority of institutions now use the “test-optional” policies, although ...

Students taking the SAT this week will see some hi-tech changes as the college admissions exam goes fully digital and adopts an “adaptive” testing method — meaning the difficulty of questions they ...

High school students' scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according ...

I live in Mill Valley, but I recently traveled to Texas to take the SAT. It’s not due to lack of planning on my part. I went on the College Board site to register for the June SAT the first hour of ...