Month: April 2022

The SAT OR ACT standardized test score used to make or break college applications for high school seniors. But the pandemic turned that all on its head as nearly 80 percent of four-year colleges and universities went test-optional. Many schools are now evaluating whether that policy should become permanent. Hari Sreenivasan reports from Atlanta for…

A star student found herself with a pile of rejection letters from top schools during the most competitive college-applications year on recordKaitlyn Younger has been an academic standout since she started studying algebra in third grade.She took her first advanced-placement course as a freshman, scored 1550 on her SATs as a junior at McKinney High…

A Substantial Increase In The Pell Grant Could Happen. But The Best Part Of This Proposal: Providing Competitive Grants To States & Colleges That Show EVIDENCE-BASED REFORMS That IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES. When Government Provides More Assistance To Help Families Fund The Rising Cost Of College, It Has Been Shown That Colleges Continue To Increase Tuition…