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University of California System Sued Over Use of ACT/SAT Scores
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University of California System Sued Over Use of ACT/SAT Scores

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University of California System Sued Over Use of ACT/SAT Scores

By Sara Zessar|2020-08-24T15:52:23+00:00December, 31, 2019|College Admissions, College Admissions Tests|

In a recent blog post on the role of standardized test scores in the college admissions process, I mentioned that a group of organizations had threatened to sue the University of California system due to its requirement that applicants submit ACT/SAT scores. Earlier this month, those groups did, in fact, [...]

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Surprised By Your ACT Writing Score? You’re Not Alone
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Surprised By Your ACT Writing Score? You’re Not Alone

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Surprised By Your ACT Writing Score? You’re Not Alone

By Sara Zessar|2020-08-24T15:52:34+00:00May, 3, 2016|College Admissions, College Admissions Tests, Uncategorized|

Enough of my Class of 2017 students have taken the ACT that I'm beginning to see a pattern in their Writing scores: compared to these students' scores on the other sections of the test, their Writing scores have been surprisingly low. For example, one of my students had an English score of [...]

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