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By TAMAR LEWIN
The SAT is being overhauled — again — and the ACT is going digital. The test makers reveal what the exams might look like.
Looking for every advantage, more students are taking — and retaking, and submitting — both the SAT and ACT. Does it help?
The SAT is being overhauled — again — and the ACT is going digital. The test makers reveal what the exams might look like.
"Crisis committees" put a new spin on Model U.N. conferences, recreating conflicts historical and imagined. Clockwise from top left: "The Wire" (Penn), Magellan's voyage (University of Chicago), 1948 Burma (Georgetown), British colonization (Yale), Iran-Pakistan relations (N.Y.U.), and the war on organized crime (McGill).
Ditch the détente. For elite clubs, this is a full-fledged sport, complete with rankings and rowdiness. Not everyone is happy about that.
For two friends from Jackson, Miss., both low-income students, freshman year at an Ivy meant never letting doubt win out.
A first-generation student worries that he’s done the one thing he feared most: let his family down.
The gay-rights movement is being felt at many of the nation’s Catholic colleges and universities, perhaps nowhere as visibly as at Georgetown, the country’s oldest Catholic university.
A small but growing number of colleges have added questions about sexual orientation to their applications. The message: You are welcome.
Back to school? Students submitted photographs of themselves and where they come from.
Who’s a 2? Who’s a 5? Ranking a pool of Berkeley hopefuls in a sea of ambiguities.
What and where to study, based on graduates’ earnings.
Questions for the co-author of “Paying for the Party.”
Timeline: A Bubble for Your Thoughts? Not for Long
Looking Sharp
