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BU extends test-optional admissions policy until Spring 2023

Sam Trottenberg February 23, 2021
Boston University announced it would extend its test-optional admissions policy for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 applicants, nearly a year after the school initially made this decision.
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EDITORIAL: The issue of standardized testing must be addressed at lower levels of education

Editors February 3, 2021
The issue of standardized testing is that universities can make it optional, but they can’t get rid of it or the system perpetuating its flaws. We need a fundamental change so all students receive a solid foundational education that starts as early as elementary school.
EDITORIAL: The primary factor in Boston’s educational disparity is funding

EDITORIAL: The primary factor in Boston’s educational disparity is funding

Editors September 15, 2020
Funding is crucial for student and teacher access to resources and materials, without which the education system is not productive and continues to divide students along socioeconomic lines

SHEA: O magnum mysterium

Daily Free Press Admin November 12, 2013

Wednesday, I will relive my standardized testing nightmare and take the GRE out of pure necessity for graduate school admissions. Needless to say, I feel like there is no good way to prepare. I do not...

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