On the menu today: Everything you expected to find in the news, including students who botched their chance to attend Dartmouth College by refusing to send in their SAT scores; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard Schultz, and first jobs; the thorny long-term challenges presented by potential U.S. military strikes against Mexican drug cartels; and some opportunities from the National Review Institute.
The SAT and ACT Make a Comeback
Yesterday, our Caroline Downey reported that Dartmouth College will restore its SAT requirement for admissions beginning with the Class of 2029, making it the first Ivy League university to reinstate the testing requirement after doing away with it post-Covid:
In an email to the university community, Dartmouth president Sian Beilock wrote that the decision to reimplement the standardized test was made in response to a faculty study which found that “standardized test scores are an important predictor of a student’s success in Dartmouth’s ...
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