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Emory University will eliminate need-based loans as part of undergraduate students’ financial aid packages, replacing them with institutional grants and scholarships beginning this fall for the 2022-23 academic year. This expansion of the Emory Advantage program will give more students the opportunity to graduate debt-free, reflecting the university’s commitment to making an Emory education accessible to talented students regardless of their financial resources. ➡️ https://links.emory.edu/fr

This is huge news!

The SAT is going digital and getting much shorter. Say goodbye to No. 2 pencils on testing day. The College Board plans to switch the SAT to a digital format, and shorten the length from three hours to two. It will be the third major overhaul of the college admission test within the past 20 years.

Will test optional become the new normal in admissions? Beyond individual colleges and universities that are going test optional, states are making the move.

Emory received a record-setting 33.78K undergraduate applications this year, the largest and most diverse applicant pool in the university’s history links.emory.edu/2025

UVA Extends Test-Optional Admissions for Two Years The University is making the move to ease applicants’ anxiety as COVID-19 continues to potentially disrupt administration of both the SAT and ACT.

The SAT is dropping its essay section and subject matter tests to streamline during the pandemic.

A judge in CA has ordered the UC system to stop considering ACT/SAT scores for this cycle.

Covid-19 Live Updates: States Should Prepare for Possible Vaccine by Early November, C.D.C. Says A Minnesota man is the first person known to have died of Covid-19 after attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, tested positive for the virus.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/15/metro/harvard-drops-standardized-test-requirement-2021/?p1=HP_TrendingBar

Harvard drops standardized test requirement for 2021 - The Boston Globe A coalition of civil rights groups and education advocates intend to send a letter on Tuesday to elite colleges, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UMass Amherst, urging them to scrap the SAT and ACT altogether.

Our students had a truly impressive year for the 2019-2020 application cycle. This is only a partial list of the schools that students were accepted to:
Columbia University
University of Michigan
Emory University
Northwestern University
McGill University
University of Virginia
University of Florida
University of Miami
University of Rochester
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas at Austin
Purdue University
Villanova University
So very proud of all of them!

What Will Fall at UVA Look Like? This Committee Is Exploring Options Answering the question on the mind of the University community is neither simple nor easy. UVA must consider many complex factors influenced by a pandemic that has deeply affected higher education.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/university-may-cancel-classes-fall-2021-trnd/index.html?ofs=fbia

Universities begin considering canceling in-person classes until 2021 A number of universities are beginning to consider the possibility that in-person classes may not resume until 2021.