NJ’s College-Bound Seniors, 2000 vs. 2010What's changed in 10 years? The College Board’s report sheds light not just on SAT scores, but on a range of data points
With all the attention on the SATs and test-taking over the last decade, what’s with the spike in the number of New Jersey high school seniors taking Italian?
Those are just some of the data points worth weighing in the College Board’s annual report on America’s college-bound high school seniors. Aside from test results and foreign language enrollment, the report touches on everything from grade-point averages to the top intended college majors. And now that we’re at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it seems like a good time to see what’s changed since the turn of the millennium.
Granted, direct comparisons can be tricky. But some trends are apparent -- not only the increased popularity of Italian as a foreign language (which tracks generally, if
