Its name strikes fear in the hearts of high school seniors. College-admissions officers use it to gauge their applicant pools. And a whole cottage industry of test-preparation companies has grown up ...

As a faculty panel at the University of California considers dropping SAT II subject tests from its admissions requirements, Harvard stands behind its decision not to do so. Harvard currently requires ...

It’s the “other SAT,” a college admissions test less known and less controversial than its high-profile counterpart. Until now. The SAT II, a series of achievement tests taken annually by fewer than a ...

Students eyeing the most competitive colleges and universities, until now, had to post impressive scores on two SAT II exams as well as on the crucial SAT. But College Board’s recent announcement that ...

Conversations about SAT and ACT scores are ubiquitous among high school students applying to colleges. Increasingly, however, many colleges and universities have begun to eschew mandatory standardized ...

The Scholastic Aptitude Test was once hailed as a way to open colleges to bright poor kids. It works pretty well to predict performance in college, and even afterwards —at least it used to in 2011.

In a 1996 referendum, California voters outlawed racial preferences. Or did they? At the University of California, a lovely backdoor has been found for beating the ban. The maneuver appears wholly ...

Korean is losing popularity in the SAT II college entrance exam after major U.S. universities changed their admission requirements. A total of 1,712 students took Korean as a SAT subject test this ...

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani publicly released his 700-plus SAT II scores on Wednesday in a jab at critics who have seized on his college career, including his decision to identify ...