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Changes are coming soon to the University of California’s application for incoming freshmen and transfer students, offering hundreds of thousands of them more freedom of choice in essays describing ...

Shifting the focus of the Scholastic Aptitude Test from arcane vocabulary exercises to what students learn in the classroom, trustees of the College Board added an essay requirement to the college ...