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Fair Admission: Episode 9 - What’s Next?

Fair Admission: Episode 9 – What’s Next?

Edward Sturm April 22, 2021

In the final episode of Fair Admission, we ask: what’s next for college admissions? With a full view of the inequities on the path to college, it’s time to hear the answers of experts as they...

Fair Admission: Episode 3 - Testing

Fair Admission: Episode 3 – Testing

Edward Sturm March 10, 2021

To understand standardized testing, we have to go back in time. Tracing the history of the SAT from its racist origins to its discriminatory impacts today, the imperative for a test-free future becomes...

Standardized test answer sheet

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.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

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
Meredith Varner

American Protest: Test scores becoming optional should stay that way

Meredith Varner March 31, 2020
Instead of creating all of these tools to try and make standardized testing fair, we should get rid of standardized testing altogether. 
EDITORIAL: New ACT policy worsens inequity instead of solving it

EDITORIAL: New ACT policy worsens inequity instead of solving it

Editors October 10, 2019

The people behind the ACT, a standardized college admissions exam, announced on Tuesday that students will be given the opportunity to retake individual sections of the exam. Until now, students have been...

EDIT: Reform, not refusal, needed in standardized testing

EDIT: Reform, not refusal, needed in standardized testing

Editors March 3, 2015

Anyone who made it to a college is classroom is way too familiar with standardized testing: every state, from Alabama to Wyoming has some version of standardized testing, and when high school hits, students...

Students began registering for a revised MCAT Wednesday which will be a longer test with more emphasis on social sciences. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY OLEG TEPLYUK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Revamped MCAT goes down with spoonful of social science

Sonia Rao February 12, 2015

As of Wednesday, pre-medical students across the nation will be able to register for the revised edition of the MCAT, the medical college admission test, which will be administered in April. For the...

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