
Elite colleges drop SAT, ACT essay test
The ability to write cogently, quickly and under pressure, helped me get into and through college. However, a growing list of selective universities have stopped requiring applicants to take SAT and ACT essay tests, reports Nick Anderson in the Washington Post. Brown, Princeton and Stanford dropped the requirement this month, following Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale. The University of Michigan followed suit yesterday. The essay test unfairly burdens low-income students, who oft