What schools should I be looking at?

[LucieTheLakie]

On the question of “who can write a decent essay in 25 minutes?”, perhaps students should join forums and post frequently.

@ucbalumnus, this is the issue with the writing test that I, personally, find most disturbing:

Speaking to the National Association for College Admission Counseling a few weeks ago, Coleman bemoaned the fact that SAT graders paid no attention to the accuracy of an essay’s claims in scoring it. He seemed particularly dismayed that a friend of his who tutors in Hong Kong goes so far as to advise her students to fabricate essay examples. When he recounted this same anecdote last year at the Brookings Institution, he elaborated, “Now I’m all for creativity and innovation, but I don’t think that’s quite the creativity we want to inspire in a generation of youth.”

I think we see students routinely demonstrate this behavior here on CC, including in this very thread!

To think some “professionals” actually recommend this type of thing is disgraceful.