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08/03/2021
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2021/07/19/survey-colleges-finds-mixed-reactions-test-optional-admissions #.YQmh-3iDjEc.link
Survey of colleges finds mixed reactions to test-optional admissions Colleges find significant gains in enrollment of minority and low-income students, but also difficulties in predicting yield.
05/16/2021
In a Dark Year on Campus, Some Surprising Glimmers of Light College in a pandemic was not the experience that most students had in mind. But at year’s end, some see positive experiences and insights that came out of it.
05/11/2021
Mom and Dad are super invested in their goslings!
05/10/2021
What high school juniors think about their college search Only 8 percent of the class hasn't started their college search, survey finds.
04/24/2021
Perspective | So you’re bummed because your favorite college said no. Read this. Retired counselor unearths data showing top schools aren’t necessarily better.
04/09/2021
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/734/the-campus-tour-has-been-cancelled
The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled - This American Life How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos.
04/03/2021
High School Seniors Ask, 'What Will College Look Like Next Fall?' : Consider This from NPR The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is giving us all hope that we'll be back to some sense of normal soon, but the pandemic will likely still play a role in what college life looks like next fall. We asked some high school seniors what questions they have about deciding where to go to school and what colle...
03/26/2021
College Admission Zombies: Ideas That Need To Die There are brain-eating fallacies and delusions in college admission that need to die. I asked my colleagues, the experts in admission, to share some of these refuted—yet perpetuated—assumptions.
03/26/2021
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03/19/2021
'Fiske Guide' will drop SAT and ACT scores Author characterizes use of average scores this year as promoting “inaccurate and misleading data.” Far fewer students are taking the tests.
03/19/2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/covid-college-admissions.html?searchResultPosition=3
‘When Normal Life Stopped’: College Essays Reflect a Turbulent Year This year’s admissions essays became a platform for high school seniors to reflect on the pandemic, race and loss.