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Five mistakes to avoid on your college application

With college application deadlines looming, admissions officers offer their take on the most common mistakes students make.

Five mistakes to avoid on your college application

With college application deadlines looming, admissions officers offer their take on the most common mistakes students make.
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Want higher SAT scores? Five ways to prep.

Options for boosting your SAT scores range from a free sample SAT test to $1,000 prep courses. Do they really help?
Lessons for Obama's education goals in the SAT

The shakiness of the college admissions test is a warning about setting national standards for states.
Students eye cheaper colleges as crisis deepens

Nearly 6 in 10 are considering less prestigious schools in order to trim costs, a survey finds.
Shelve the S.A.T?

It's up to colleges to stop the frenzy over the SAT and ACT.
Focus less on the S.A.T., study tells colleges

Exams tied to school curricula may be a viable alternative for admissions assessment, a year-long study says.
Does new S.A.T. help with admissions decisions?

The College Board releases a positive report on the writing section, but many schools are doing their own studies.
College admissions dance gets longer, more complicated

It could be well into the summer before some graduating high school seniors know where they'll be studying in the fall.