DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Duke University will no longer require applicants to submit SAT essay or ACT writing scores. Officials said submitting these scores will be optional but are still recommended.

The SAT will no longer require an essay section, according to an announcement yesterday from the College Board about the 88-year-old test’s redesign. The new SAT will return to a score out of 1600, ...

Currently, to apply to college in Michigan, students must include their SAT exam scores – along with the SAT essay – in their transcripts as part of the annual Michigan Merit Exam, which is ...

NEW YORK -- An expected overhaul of the SAT college entrance exam looks likely to include a handwritten essay, creating a new challenge for college-bound students, a big logistic chore for test ...

Duke University will no longer require students to submit some testing scores when they apply for admission. It will soon be optional for applicants to submit SAT essay scores or ACT writing scores.

My son Alexei just graduated from high school, ending an intense and important senior year, in which he was judged worthy of acceptance by some colleges and rejected by others. As it turns out, the ...

With college application due dates looming in the near future, many high school seniors are scrambling to take the SAT just one more time. A new phenomenon on the test, the "writing section," has now ...

The SAT’s essay-writing component has been accused of many sins. Now scholars at the College Board, the nonprofit organization that oversees the SAT, have risen to defend the writing assessment. In a ...