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11/12/2021

Once you’ve completed your 2022–23 FAFSA® form, make sure you stay on track by completing these next steps.

11/09/2021

Some insight regarding testing and test-optional schools going forward.

Ask a dozen people about college admission testing and you’ll get a dozen different takes. What you hear depends on whom you ask and the relationship they have with testing. At times, testing chatter can be a dizzying web of musings, opinions, personal beliefs, and generalizations. Ideally, a reck...

09/10/2021

07/09/2021

Registration for the August 28th SAT is now open! Here's the scheduled SAT dates for 2021 - 2022.

07/09/2021

MORE IN-STATE STUDENTS AT CALIFORNIA COLLEGES

The budget requires three of the state’s most popular public universities to admit more in-state students. Under the plan, UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego would replace 900 out-of-state students with California students each year. Out-of-state students pay more tuition, so the state would pay those schools $184 million over the next three years.

California legislators approved a budget proposal Monday, compromising with Gov. Gavin Newsom on topics such as economic stimulus and higher education.

05/26/2021

After a record-breaking year for applications to the UCs, change may be coming -- a welcome change for California high school students.

As the University of California confronts record demand for admission, lawmakers are considering a plan to cut in half the share of nonresident students to make more room for locals.

05/02/2021

AP exams are here! Check out College Board's live daily reviews.

AP Daily: Live Review is a series of live-streamed sessions on YouTube, hosted by AP teachers from across the country, that help you prepare for the 2021 AP Exams.

04/17/2021

It was a tough year for high school students applying to UCs. Here are some takeaways.

University of California admissions officers explain their decisions in a year of record applications that brought widespread heartbreak and some joy for high school seniors competing for spots.

04/08/2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/07/admit-rates-ivy-league-pandemic-test-optional/

Applications to Harvard University spiked more than 40 percent. And 3.4 percent got in. It was not a coincidence that it was Harvard's first test-optional year.