The College Board and ACT also have eliminated a standby option for taking exams.
Most Profile form schools count at least some equity, using one of four College Board methods.
Two big caveats: The College Board math assumes everyone goes to a public college.
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For that matter, anything that cuts college costs reduces investment risk, says Jennifer Ma, a College Board analyst.
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She won the Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge sponsored by the College Board and MTV, this past spring.
That growing demand had The College Board survey high schools to determine the interest in advanced-placement exams for Mandarin.
One indication of this trend is student interest in the Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered by the College Board.
The college board's chairwoman Mo Shepherd said there had been potential in both options that management had looked at.
"We believe these new enhancements will effectively eliminate the issue of test-taker impersonation, " College Board spokeswoman Kathleen Fineout Steinberg said.
From there, I was elected to the Rio Hondo Community College Board in Whittier, the California Assembly and eventually Congress.
According to the College Board, tuition and charges at private four-year colleges rose 5.8% this year and 9.6% at public colleges.
In 2003, according to the College Board, just 4.5% of Alabama's successful AP students (those who passed the subject exam) were black.
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Nationwide, 44% of high-school freshmen go on to attend college and 21% earn a bachelor's degree in six years, the College Board said.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, whose office is prosecuting the cases, worked with the College Board and ACT to craft the new rules.
Babson Research Survey Group and College Board estimate that in the fall of 2010 6.1 million students took at least one online education course.
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Meanwhile, college costs have continued to rise at rates faster than inflation, particularly at public schools faced with state budget cuts, according to College Board figures.
College Board officials and other experts noted that the declining scores could have much to do with the testing pool, which is growing and becoming more diverse.
In addition, according to Babson and College Board, 65 percent of higher education institutions say online education is now a critical part of their long-term strategy.
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"At the core of this case is that we have kids who think that cheating pays, " Ms. Rice said at a Tuesday news conference with College Board officials.
According to a study by the College Board in the early 1980s, a trait known as "follow-through" was one of the best predictors of success in college and beyond.
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Meantime, at four-year public colleges and universities, tuition and fees for in-state students rose 4.8% in the 2012-13 academic year, the smallest increase since 2000-01, according to the College Board.
So as of 2007, The College Board will begin offering its Mandarin AP exams, which is almost certain to spark even more interest as students clamor for that early college credit.
James Montoya, a vice president of the College Board, said the results are a "call to action" for students, parents and schools to ensure more teenagers enroll in a core curriculum.
The graduating class of 2012 posted an average score of 496 in reading, a one-point drop from 2011 and a 34-point decline since 1972, the first year the College Board began tracking the scores of "college-bound" seniors.
As a result, they tend to graduate students with higher debt than those institutions, according to the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center, an arm of the College Board, whose membership includes not-for-profit private and public colleges.
In compiling our list of most expensive colleges and universities, we referenced data and surveys published by a variety of sources, including the Chronicle of Higher Education (which uses figures collected by the College Board) and Campus Grotto.
And he likely would have been flummoxed by the ever-increasing expense of higher education: The cost of a four-year private college rose 4.2 percent between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years, according to the College Board's Trends In College Pricing.
The College-Level Examination Program, run by the College Board (the institution that commissions the SAT entrance test), allows students to study on their own, then take a competency test in one of 33 subjects and get college credit for passing.
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