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New SAT Policy Gives Students Control Over What Scores Colleges See
26 June 08 05:32 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

A new SAT scoring policy will give high school students the option to show only their best SAT score to college admissions officers and to prevent these school officials from seeing test-scores that were less-than-stellar. Under the new policy, which Read More...

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Top-Rated Colleges Drop SAT Requirement for Admissions Applicants
05 June 08 04:27 PM | Student Loan Girl | 2 Comments   

Smith College in Massachusetts and Wake Forest University in North Carolina recently joined the nearly 30 percent of all 760 four-year colleges and universities in the country that no longer require the submission of SAT or other standardized test scores Read More...

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America’s “Best” Colleges of 2008: Strategies for College-Bound Students to Compose Their Own List
23 August 07 04:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Once again, U.S. News & World Report ’s latest ranking of colleges and universities received hordes of criticism and its yearly flogging from university presidents and officials who take issue with the magazine’s grading system. Even despite the effort Read More...

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