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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

2020 AP Exams to continue online with structural changes

2020 AP Exams to continue online with structural changes

April 22, 2020

Evanston high school students can still take their Advanced Placement Exams while learning from home, but the College Board has moved them online and cut the hours-long tests to just 45 minutes. The...

A student turning the page in their SAT book. The Wall Street Journal highlighted test-taker data as a tool colleges use to boost their exclusivity earlier this week.

Report: Northwestern encourages applications to boost selectivity

November 8, 2019

Year after year, colleges mail high school students brochures with information on academic programs, student-to-faculty ratio, campus culture and how to apply. Schools know who to reach by obtaining data...

An adversity score will be added to SAT college entrance test results, rating applicants on environmental factors meant to offer admissions officers a glimpse into a students socioeconomic background, the College Board said Thursday. Northwestern was among the schools who participated in a pilot program.

Northwestern was a pilot school for SAT’s adversity score to assess a student’s privilege

May 21, 2019
Northwestern was among the 50 schools that participated in a pilot program, though it said Monday that it did not use the score to make admission decisions. The reaction to the news was mixed.
National math scores on college entrance exams began to fall nationwide last year, including at Northwestern.

College entrance exam scores raise red flags about math achievement

November 28, 2018

Scores on the ACT and the SAT are raising red flags about college readiness and math achievement across the nation. Four million high school students took the ACT or SAT in 2018, an increase from 3.8...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) speaks. Durbin, along with U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Angus King (I-Maine), introduced a bill that would make college textbooks free and downloadable.

Durbin introduces bill to make textbooks free to public

September 27, 2017

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would make college textbooks free to the public, expanding access to a costly resource for many college students. The legislation, which...

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