AdmissionSight

MARCH 12, 2025

Through the Center for International Higher Education , youll have the chance to engage in global research that shapes higher education policies worldwide. You dont have to submit SAT or ACT scores, but you can send them in if you think theyll help your application. Should I submit SAT or ACT scores to Boston College?

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 28, 2023

More evidence of the pandemic learning slide came in the form of data released by the ACT last fall: scores for the class of 2022 hit a 30-year low , with 42% of test takers failing to meet the minimum college readiness benchmarks set by the ACT. While education policy leaders are calling for nationwide reform, what can YOU do now?

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BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

This time, the suit involves legacy admissions , the university's policy of favoring children of alumni. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights by Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), alleges the practice violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harvard is being sued … again. The complaint, filed with the U.S.

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AdmissionSight

MARCH 20, 2025

This huge jump is mainly because of factors shaped by COVID-19, particularly colleges implementing test-optional policies , which made it easier for students to apply without standardized test scores. The admissions process is highly competitive, and even top students get rejected despite high GPAs or perfect ACT/SAT scores.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 23, 2025

This huge jump is mainly because of factors shaped by COVID-19, particularly colleges implementing test-optional policies , which made it easier for students to apply without standardized test scores. The admissions process is highly competitive, and even top students get rejected despite high GPAs or perfect ACT/SAT scores.

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SSA Online College Prep

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’m also going to talk about the pandemic and the tremendous toll it’s taken on our students, as well as the article that Michael Bloomberg wrote about bringing back the SATs and ACTs. Without SAT and ACT scores, the job of admitting students had become more subjective and time consuming. The Findings of the Hechinger Report.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re outside of the top 6%, I suggest submitting your SAT/ACT if it’s higher than 28 or 1350. I have no idea how test-optional policies may affect the Academic Index calculations that accounts for students opting out of the ACT/SAT. It seems that UT’s test-optional policy applies to admissions, honors, and scholarships.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 1, 2024

Since 2018, the university has ceased disclosing acceptance rates in real time, instead waiting months after admissions decisions have been made to report publicly available data. In the last few years, Stanford has seen widespread debate over the future of legacy admissions, test-optional policies, and race-based affirmative action.

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DC College Counseling

MARCH 20, 2023

And speaking of Virginia, we saw a repeat of their 2018 historic loss to 16-seed UMBC when 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson beat 1-seed Purdue. The gender policy at Wellesley states that the school is open to all students who live and identify as women, including transgender women and nonbinary people who were assigned female at birth.

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the college spy

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In lieu of requiring students to take and report scores for the SAT or ACT, colleges have three choices. Test flexible colleges require some form of assessment but it doesn’t have to be the SAT or ACT. Are test optional admissions policies new? Why have so many colleges stopped requiring the SAT or ACT?

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AHM Advising

MARCH 23, 2022

5) CMU's School of Computer Science introduced the country's first Artificial Intelligence degree in 2018. While standardized testing was optional for Fall 2022, they have not yet announced their testing policy for Fall 2023 and beyond. My interpretation - plan to take the SAT or ACT, as a good score may end up helping you.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Criticism of legacy policies has intensified following the U.S. In a 2013 Supreme Court hearing, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is Puerto Rican, disagreed that banning legacy policies is race-neutral. Johns Hopkins University, a Maryland institution, abandoned its legacy policy in 2014. Sotomayor said.

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Solomon Admissions

AUGUST 23, 2022

Standardized testing such as the SAT and ACT - a de facto requirement across the vast majority of institutions - were quickly made optional, providing students who may have found standardized testing to be a barrier with an opportunity to submit their best application based on the quality of their performance across high-school grades.

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The Koppelman Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

We think that’s because they got rid of their supplement in 2018 and then adopted, and have maintained, a test-optional policy during COVID. It makes sense that their middle 50s were 33-35 for ACT and 1460-1530 for SAT. Northeastern has become highly, highly competitive over the last few years. With a 5% acceptance rate?

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DC College Counseling

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Between 2018 and 2022, however, the College Board made millions of dollars licensing this information. This research comes as Dartmouth recently announced the decision to reinstate its policy to require test scores, and Harvard committed to a test-optional policy through its Class of 2030.

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College Essay Guy

JUNE 14, 2023

USC Acceptance Rate USC Early Decision, Early Action, Regular Decision, and Transfer Acceptance Rate GPA Requirements to get into USC SAT Requirements to get into USC ACT Requirements to get into USC What does USC look for in students? USC has had far more applicants each year since at least the 2018-19 application season.

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DC College Counseling

JANUARY 9, 2024

The New York Times article, The Misguided War on the SAT , brings to light recent research into the value of SAT scores, and more generally standardized test scores including the SAT and ACT, and their ability to predict student success in college and beyond.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 17, 2023

Congress awarded large parcels of land to many states in 1862 through the first Morrill Act, establishing the original land-grant universities, he said. The last reauthorization happened in 2018, meaning Congress must do so again by the end of this year. Instead, it may cause states to drop their 1890 institutions altogether.

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DC College Counseling

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And while I know that Villanova has always been more selective than Boulder, I’m still getting major 2016 and 2018 flashbacks. FLORIDA APPROVES THE CLT In the latest development on the ongoing battle between Florida and the College Board, the state just approved the CLT, or Classic Learning Test, as an alternative to the SAT and ACT.

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

Cal Tech and Drexel admitted 1 percent of their waitlisted students for Fall 2018. They suggest writing an unsolicited letter of interest, sending resume updates, midyear grade reports, staying in touch with your assigned admissions counselor, and even retaking the SAT/ACT.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Neuroscience In 2018, the faculty of the Department of Neuroscience joined other investigators in cross-disciplinary research on the science of mind at the Jerome L. A strategic litigator, feminist, scholar, and advocate for gender equality, her policies paved the path for women worldwide. Greene Science Center.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The No Barriers policy ensures all students who attend the school can graduate debt-free. It’s neither required nor recommended for applicants to take the SAT or ACT. Among the class of 2024, 41 percent submitted SAT scores and 36 percent submitted ACT scores. Who gets into UChicago?

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BestColleges

AUGUST 24, 2023

Their bachelor's in healthcare administration program is a 121-credit program that equips students for the field through courses in business, professional communication, accounting, health policy, human resource management, and marketing for healthcare organizations. Students can also pursue minors in public health and applied data science.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

50 percent of Alpert aid recipients receive institutional scholarships ; in 2018–2019, the average award was $33,730. This means that, though your child is welcome to submit SAT or ACT scores , their application won’t be penalized for not doing so and will receive full consideration either way. How hard is it to get into PLME?

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 20, 2022

In the Fall 2018 cycle, UT required all students to write an Academics short answer discussing their academic record. If you choose not to submit an ACT/SAT, you still need to have most or all A’s on the honors/AP track to be competitive, especially for majors that are in high demand.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If you’ve taken the SAT or ACT more than once, you are encouraged to send in all scores. Note: For the 2022-2023 application cycle, the SAT and ACT requirement will be waived for students whose ability to take the exam was impeded by COVID.). What is FlexMed looking for in students? Interviews will take place in April.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 27, 2022

You can presume that your reviewer is relatively up-to-date and informed on global business issues like the US-China trade disputes, reciprocal tariffs and protectionist US trade policies, and the Justice Department and European Union inquiries and civil suits against Facebook and other technology conglomerates.

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 21, 2022

high school graduating class of 2022, took the ACT. [1]. The ACT may be becoming less popular. The percentage of highschool graduates who take the ACT has dropped 12 percentage points between 2012-2022. Each year, over one million high school students take the ACT exam. Average ACT Score in 2022. Source: ACT [5].

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Bills like the Equality Act and the PrEP Access and Coverage Act require widespread support. I'm trying to win them over into why they should oppose a policy … I oppose it, but here's why you should too.". First openly gay man to hold elected office, elected in 2018, representing Colorado. Treakle Elementary.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 14, 2024

Studying health law will give me the tools necessary to construct public policy that can address the fundamental issues that are plaguing the healthcare industry today. It will allow me to defend policies that promote greater access to more affordable and higher quality healthcare. Again, her passion for the subject comes through.

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College Essay Guy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In late June, the Supreme Court banned affirmative action as it relates to college admission (also known as race-conscious admission policies), leaving many students wondering… “Can I talk about race in my personal statement and college application?” Yes, you definitely can (see rest of blog for more). “.And And should I?”

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BestColleges

JANUARY 30, 2024

New evidence, however, suggests they might want to rethink their policies. Using admissions records and first-year grades from several "Ivy-Plus" colleges between 2017 and 2022, the group determined that keeping all other variables equal, students who scored highest on the SAT and ACT earned college GPAs 0.43 Exclamation mark.

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BestColleges

APRIL 6, 2023

Students who want to impact climate policies have two options: They can choose to apply to colleges with strong environmental records, or they can increase their activism to change how their institutions approach climate issues. As the urgency of climate change soars, students are looking more at colleges advancing climate activism.

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BestColleges

MARCH 29, 2023

The Affordable College Textbook Act aims to lessen the financial burden of textbooks for college students. senators, led by Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois, reintroduced the Affordable College Textbook Act on Monday. This bill also calls for additional transparency in textbook costs. A coalition of four U.S.

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It stayed fairly stable for a few years but started to dip more noticeably after 2018, hitting just 11.7% Heres another important thing to know: UC Berkeley, along with the rest of the UC schools, has a test-blind policy for SAT and ACT scores. 2026 128,210 14,522 11.3% 2025 112,835 16,295 14.4% 2024 88,064 15,390 17.5%

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

2019 97,121 17,474 18% 2018 92,728 16,016 17.3% Since the UC system went test-blind , SAT and ACT scores arent considered in admissions anymore. One thing to keep in mind is that UCLA has a test-blind policy for SAT and ACT scores. 2026 149,815 12,844 8.6% 2025 139,490 15,028 10.8% 2024 108,877 15,602 14.3%

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It stayed fairly stable for a few years but started to dip more noticeably after 2018, hitting just 11.7% Heres another important thing to know: UC Berkeley, along with the rest of the UC schools, has a test-blind policy for SAT and ACT scores. 2026 128,210 14,522 11.3% 2025 112,835 16,295 14.4% 2024 88,064 15,390 17.5%

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