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Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
« on: July 17, 2018, 06:00:21 pm »
Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements


By Rob Shimshock Published on July 16, 2018 • 3 Comments

Colleges are quickly dropping their SAT and ACT essay requirements for applicants, with education experts saying the compositions “have never been of much use” and the institutions suggesting that their additional cost prevented poorer students from applying.

Brown University ditched the requirement on Wednesday, making it the last Ivy League school to do so and leaving just 21 colleges that demand the essays, according to The Princeton Review. Two additional universities are also considering dropping their SAT and ACT essay requirements.

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Re: Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2018, 06:01:18 pm »
Writing is a white thing.
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Re: Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2018, 05:55:25 pm »
Leftists/liberals wreck everything eventually.
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2018, 05:57:32 pm »
Couldn't they just substitute in a Texting section in place of  a "written". 
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Re: Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2018, 06:07:08 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on July 18, 2018, 05:57:32 pm
Couldn't they just substitute in a Texting section in place of  a "written".
Make the SATs and ACTs like video games and have them do the tests on their cell phones.  Or make a game for them out of it they can do on their game boys.
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Re: Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2018, 06:02:46 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on July 17, 2018, 06:01:18 pm
Writing is a white thing.
Why bother? I spent all those years attempting to become reasonably literate, and now the directions are in indecipherable hieroglyphics....
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Re: Here’s Why Colleges are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2018, 02:17:14 pm »
From what I've observed, the number of high school seniors who can express themselves intelligibly in writing is very small, indeed.
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