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Writing assessment a requirement of freshman applicants for 2006

By Sharron Hannon
shannon@uga.edu

Students applying for admission as freshmen for the summer and fall of 2006 will be required to submit a scored writing assessment as part of their standardized test scores. President Michael F. Adams approved the recommendation of the Faculty Admissions Committee to institute the requirement.
The SAT will begin offering the writing assessment in spring 2005 for juniors who will begin their college career in 2006. The ACT also will offer a writing component, but it will be an optional test for the ACT. UGA will accept either the SAT or ACT exams, but students must sit for the entire exam and include the writing assessment as part of their score.
“The members of the Faculty Admissions Committee are confident that this additional information will help the university to assess students,” says Nancy McDuff, associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management. “The writing assessment will provide a controlled writing sample, showing how students perform in a short time period without being able to revise their work. Since the ability to write well is an important measure of a student’s potential success at UGA, we want to emphasize this to prospective applicants.”
The new writing assessment requirement will not replace the essay and short answer questions that are currently part of UGA’s application for admissions, McDuff says.
UGA is among more than 115 schools that have announced that they will require a writing assessment. Included in that group are the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Yale and the University of Texas.

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