Remember being forced to sit through at least three hours of SAT II subject testing, just so you could apply to Georgetown? Beginning this year, applicants will not be required to subject themselves to the testing.

The Examiner reports that Georgetown and Harvard University flew under the radar with their recent decisions to no longer require that three subject tests be submitted with an application for consideration.

Harvard dropped their requirement down to two, which Examiner contributor Nancy Griesemer believes the change may be a sign of the shrinking significance of standardized testing.

Georgetown, however, shifted the wording on the application rather than changing the number required.

The Office of Admissions altered the wording on the application to indicate that subject tests are now “strongly recommended” rather than being required of applicants.

What does this mean for Class of 2015 hopefuls? Although it’s still probably in the best interest of applicants to have three subject tests, there’s a good chance that many people will now simply opt out of more standardized testing.

Vox looks forward to seeing the response from standardized testing behemoth the College Board in regards to the reduction in standardized testing.

Monday’s Advisory Neighborhood Committee meeting was short on entertainment, but awfully long on just about everything else.

Topics included how to ease the traffic jams at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, a monthly public safety report, some complaints about the Alcohol Beverage Control Board’s moratorium, and a University’s ten-year plan—but sadly, it wasn’t Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan. Let’s get to the wrap:

Ed Solomon: Private Eye

In what we can only imagine was a long-gestating dream, Commissioner Ed Solomon delivered the evening’s public safety report after MPD Lieutenant Jon Hedgecock couldn’t attend the meeting.

“As far as crime in our area, it’s still basically what we reported last month,” Solomon said as he presumably imagined himself chasing down petty crooks and arresting bank robbers. “It’s trending down but there’s been some high-visibility crime in our neighborhood.”

According to Solomon, who we hope dons a mask and fights crime on the streets of Georgetown, MPD plans to move extra police officers from Friday and Saturday nights to “other higher crime nights.”

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Adam Wheeler, the man who was indicted on Monday with 20 counts of larceny and identity fraud for lying his way into Harvard University, also claimed to attend Georgetown University, according to a résumé leaked by the New Repulbic.

Among the many accomplishments lauded in the résumé, Wheeler included a “Independent Graduate Study” at Georgetown during the Summer of 2008, presumably (and fictitiously) awarded though a “Georgetown Summer Research Grant.”

(Not to mention fluency in French, Old English, Classical Armenian, and Old Persian.)

However, Wheeler’s other academic claims dwarf his Georgetown lie—they include a perfect SAT score, a short stint at MIT where “[he] was, to put it poorly, suckled upon the teat of disdain,” forged recommendation letters, and a false undergraduate transcript, according to the Harvard Crimson.

After the jump, we’ve attached a copy of the résumé that was originally published by TNR.

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