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Advanced Placement participation and exam scores have been on the rise over the last decade. But access for specific groups of underserved students continues to fall behind and in some cases has declined over the last year, College Board says.

NACAC guidelines changed in September. Now, new research suggests a substantial minority of enrollment officers are considering more aggressively recruiting students from other institutions.

Panel of professors back keeping SAT or ACT at the University of California, for now, but other colleges continue to drop them as requirements.

Sentence is longest to date in admissions scandal.

The University of California's Academic Senate declines to endorse test-optional admissions policies for the system.

And early action is flat, according to numbers from Naviance. Black and Latino applicants are less likely to apply early than are Asians and whites. Common App figures point to fears about this year's totals.