Should I apply early (early admission) to university?

So, you're preparing for the SAT. But should you apply early for university?
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It's important to understand the pros and cons of early admission.

Early decision serves many colleges well. Students applying early decision agree to attend if they are accepted, which enables admissions officers to lock in a percentage of their freshman class. They get to spread out their workload so they aren't quite as overwhelmed with applications in January.
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SAT Essay: Make your introduction and conclusion strong

Many students who get a 10 have skimped on the introduction and conclusion.
Make sure you pay attention to both of those to receive a 12.

Here's how to turn a 10 essay into a 12:

Make sure your introduction and conclusion have 3-4 sentences each.

A 10 essay already should include:

A gerund phrase:

  Believing the equal protection clause granted her the right to vote, Susan B. Anthony

Other complex sentences:

  Though she died...

  Despite facing attacks...

This essay was a 10 previously. Now it's a 12 with the changes.

The parts with strikethrough font were for the 10 essay.
The parts with underline are new.
The other parts (no strikethrough or underline) were unchanged.

some small changes were implemented to avoid repetition: (using person instead of using "citizen" again).
A few other changes: bigger words: ameliorate and paragon
The big change is the longer conclusion with a good quote.

People who gathered in a hall in Philadelphia and crafted a constitution shaped the United States. And it is citizens who must continue to effect change. One cannot expect government to initiate and bring about changes to improve society.

Two major constitutional amendments granting equality -- the Fourteenth Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment -- were promoted by individual Americans fighting for equality. No two individuals pushed for those changes more than Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass did.

No two individuals pushed more for those changes than did Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.

Anthony was born in 1820, when women lacked the right to vote and could not even own property. She spearheaded a campaign for women's property rights in New York. The state finally granted the right in 1860. But her bigger -- and tougher -- battle was women's suffrage.

She believed Believing the equal protection clause granted her the right to vote. So, in 1860, she cast a ballot in Rochester. She wasPolice arrested her, and faced trial. The a judge actually issued a guilty verdict before the trial. He fined her, but she refused to pay. , fining her. Despite facing attacks from the public and pundits, she soldiered on, playing a pivotal role in the movement with her journal, The Revolution. WhileThough she died in 1906 -- 14 years before the passage of the 19th Amendment -- she laid the groundwork for the right of women to vote. Anthony demonstrates that individuals must play a key role in improving society.

Just as Anthony, as an individual citizen, pushed for rights as a citizen, so too did Frederick Douglass. The son of a slave, he worked as a servant. The wife of the servant taught him to read --in violation of state law. That move enabled him to push later in his life to effect change in society as an educated citizen.person. After Douglass escaped slavery and, he eloquently told of his ordeal in a passionate speech. The talk catapulted him to the forefront of the antislavery movement. He didn't wait for Congress to act, he pushed legislators to act and persuaded President Lincoln to make the civil war a war against slavery.

t is the acts of individuals, pushing to make a difference, that changes the world. Government alone cannot effect change as great as the change brought on by citizens.Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass serve as paragons of the notion that individuals must work toward change. Their fight was well-captured by Robert F. Kennedy, who once said that each person who acts to effect change sends “tiny ripples of hope,” ripples that cross each other and can knock down the “mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Individuals must push to make a difference to bring about revolutionary change; government cannot ameliorate the world’s problems as well as citizens can do.

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Would Romney fail the writing portion of the SAT?

U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney is surging ahead in the polls. Do you like he? Sounds funny, huh? Not to Romney.

Check out this quote that appeared in the New York Times.

“Well, I understand Newt must be very angry and I don’t exactly understand why, but look, I wish him well,” Mr. Romney said. “It’s a long road ahead. He’s a good guy. I like he and Callista."

My high school students would know this basic grammar. The object gets the objective form. "him and Callista" are the objects, not "he and Callista."

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