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...coast are only a small part of Taiwan. The rest of the island is covered with remote, forested mountains, which are laced with hundreds of hiking trails. Taiwan is home to the highest mountain in east Asia?at 3,952 m, Yushan (Jade Mountain) is taller than Japan's Mount Fuji?while dozens of peaks soar above 3,000 m. Protected by the government, the mountains are home to black bears, salmon, rare birds and other wildlife and are the island's most compelling attraction...
...Over the past few years, however, the test's defenders have started to lose ground. About 280 of the nation's 2,083 four-year colleges and universities make the SAT optional for some or all applicants; a handful of prestigious colleges, including Franklin and Marshall and Mount Holyoke, have joined their ranks since the early '90s and say they aren't admitting idiots as a result. Hamilton College is considering making the SAT optional. Countless other schools have de-emphasized the SAT in more subtle ways - continuing to ask for scores but weighing other factors more heavily...
Should we give a spot to Susan? That's the question before a roomful of admissions officers at Mount Holyoke College. Susan, who has top grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children...
...Conspicuously absent from the determination of Susan's fate is any mention of her SATs. That's because, in the parlance of Mount Holyoke's admissions officers, Susan is a "score blocker." Last summer Mount Holyoke announced that for a five-year trial period, it would give applicants the option of withholding their test scores, allowing the college to test the effectiveness of the SAT as a predictor of college success. This fall applications rose 10 percent, with 1 in 6 scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed...
...Like many highly selective small colleges, 164-year-old Mount Holyoke has traditionally required rigorous entrance exams. In recent years, however, the college has been relying less and less on tests, assuring applicants that other factors were more important. Still, students continued to obsess over scores. Four years ago, in an effort to ease some of that stress, Mount Holyoke cut back on the number of tests it required, making the more subject-specific SAT II's optional. But the admissions staff continued to hear SAT horror stories - about applicants spending $845 an hour on test prep, for example...