BestColleges

MARCH 2, 2023

In a 2018 study, 19% of students reported being housing insecure. The entire administration sat on chairs in front of us in the auditorium and told us our students would have access to student housing all four years they were on campus. Only 600 spots on-campus will be reserved for returning students. We all went to orientation.

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BestColleges

APRIL 27, 2023

Saahil Desai, writing in The Atlantic , notes that 65% of domestic Ivy League athletes were white as of 2018, as were 79% of athletes among schools in Division III's New England Small College Athletic Conference , which features institutions such as Amherst College, Williams College, Middlebury College, and Wesleyan University.

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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

The Findings of the Hechinger Report The Limitations of “Test-Optional” College Persistence and the Pandemic The National Assessment of Educational Progress and Standardized Tests How We Even the Playing Field The Failings of our Educational System Discover more SAT tips on our blog! Sign up for individual SAT tutoring here!

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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. Some Honors programs allow students to self-report AP/IB/SAT Subject Tests, however.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If you’ve taken the SAT or ACT more than once, you are encouraged to send in all scores. They will “superscore” the SAT, according to the Admissions Program Director. 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.).

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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

Did You Know… Fewer students take the ACT each year than the SAT, and it's declining in popularity. million high school graduates took the SAT in 2022, which is an increase from 1.5 The ACT and SAT have many of the same components. Both tests also cover reading, English (or language on the SAT), and math.

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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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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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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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