September 29, 2008

At Admissions Conference, 3 Questions About Standardized Tests

By Eric Hoover

Seattle

For three days here, tests were the talk of the town. Over cocktails and crabs, admissions deans and high-school counselors discussed the controversial exams that have become synonymous with selective college admissions.

At the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, attendees discussed plenty of issues, but none inspired as many heated discussions as the ACT, the SAT, and the many questions that surround those two tests, the largest in

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