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Students themselves are an incredibly varied lot. This is not your father’s Harvard-while prep school alums are common, they no longer exclusively run the show. Harvard undergrads come from every state and increasingly from abroad, with the range of students further bolstered with a newly improved financial aid program...
...format, it is not a difficult test for which to prepare. Students who familiarize themselves with the format of the test and likely vocabulary words have a definite advantage over students who do not. Capitalizing on this fact, companies like The Princeton Review and Kaplan offer elaborate, expensive test-prep classes to thousands of high school students. For several hundred dollars and a few weeks of time, these companies often guarantee to raise SAT scores by hundreds of points—and they usually succeed. Unfortunately, opportunities for artificially inflating scores are only available to those with enough time...
...game is getting even more complicated. "Each college kind of has its own stance on the degree to which it's willing to have those conversations" about financial aid, says Amy Grieger, college counselor at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prestigious Massachusetts prep school. What troubles Grieger as well as many college admissions officers is that the latest wave of merit-based scholarships is undermining efforts to promote economic and racial diversity, because it handicaps the lower-income kids, who might not be first in their class. "As a system, we're not serving those students very well," she admits...
...game is getting even more complicated. "Each college kind of has its own stance on the degree to which it's willing to have those conversations" about financial aid, says Amy Grieger, college counselor at Northfield Mount Hermon, a prestigious Massachusetts prep school. What troubles Grieger as well as many college admissions officers is that the latest wave of merit-based scholarships is undermining efforts to promote economic and racial diversity, because it handicaps the lower-income kids, who might not be first in their class. "As a system, we're not serving those students very well," she admits...
...ironic that we find ourselves questioning the fairness and usefulness of the SATS at a time when state-required competency exams are popping up all over. In these state exams, I see the same test-prep problems, bias, racial gaps, memorization and the same testing mania that we fault the SATS for. State-required competency exams can cause even more pressure and greater consequences, since in many states these tests are a requirement for graduation, the hurdle students must pass before they find out what college they will get into based on their SATS. SARAH CHOU Los Altos, Calif...