The College Admissions Process.

The College Admissions Process. Once you are at least partly complete with the college search process, the next issue is being admitted. The college admissions process need not be overly stressful if your choices aren't extremely selective.  If you are applying to more selective schools, or to popular programs that tend to be more selective than the school as a whole, you will have to work a bit harder to prepare an application that highlights your strongest features. And if you are targeting extremely selective schools, like Ivy League schools or others of comparable selectivity, the admissions phase will be challenging and require significant effort on your part.

College Board Redesigns SAT Exam Making Essay Portion Optional

 The College Board will make the essay portion of its SAT admissions test optional starting in 2016 and eliminate esoteric vocabulary words, a move likely to be embraced by high school students and their parents.

Scoring will return to a maximum of 1,600 points for math and evidence-based reading and writing, and the optional essay will be scored separately, the College Board, which administers the test, said yesterday. Students will need to show critical-thinking skills by analyzing science and history texts.

The SAT’s overhaul addresses concerns from educators and families about costly preparation for standardized tests and that they “have become disconnected” from high school work, said David Coleman, president and chief executive officer of the College Board. Most U.S. colleges require either the SAT or ACT to help determine admission qualifications. The College Board added a mandatory essay in 2005.

“We’ve also been listening to students and their families for whom these tests are often mysterious and filled with unproductive anxiety,” Coleman said in a speech yesterday in Austin, Texas. “They are skeptical that either the SAT or the ACT allows them to show their best work.”

Hawkesbury

Location

The Hawkesbury campus is situated in the suburb of Richmond in the Hawkesbury Local Government Area. The campus is located on the corner of Bourke Street and Londonderry Road Richmond, main entrance is via Bourke Street.