BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

This time, the suit involves legacy admissions , the university's policy of favoring children of alumni. For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% About 28% of Harvard's class of 2019 were legacies. Harvard is being sued … again. for non-legacies.

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BestColleges

JULY 20, 2023

The brief from military leadership points out that in 2019, 36% of active-duty officers were ROTC-commissioned. What's more, ROTC has been the primary source of minority officers, the brief details, with 29% of Black and 32% of Hispanic officers earning commissions through ROTC in 2019.

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BestColleges

APRIL 20, 2023

It's an economic engine that in 2019 inspired incoming Humboldt State University President Tom Jackson to wonder: Why didn't the institution have an academic program studying cannabis? The program is "foundationally ethnobotanical," Corva explained. Preparing Students for Array of Cannabis Careers Combined U.S.

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Discovery College Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2025

Forbes also pointed out that the 2023-24 numbers were in line with a sustained year-over-year increase in applications since the 2019-20 application cycle. Between 2019-20 and 2023-24, the number of students applying with the Common App grew by 285,000 or 28%! The proliferation of test-optional policies.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 9, 2023

This became especially true in 2020, given changes in test administration and colleges’ testing policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If your child is applying to colleges this cycle, or in the next year or two, you may be wondering which colleges are adopting test-optional policies—a trend that is increasing nationwide.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

million fewer tradit ional - aged (18 - 24) college students in 2022 from 2019. Research from the United States Department of Education shows 1.2

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The 2019 Campus Computing Project survey of chief information officers and senior campus officials found the following (4): %. Embracing big data in complex educational systems: The learning analytics imperative and the policy challenge. In reality, education lags behind all other sectors in adoption of analytics solutions (3).

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic payment pause, the three-year student loan default rate was 10.1%. A borrower’s federal student loans enter default after nine months of continual missed payments.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 24, 2023

Colgate saw a remarkable 102% increase in applications from the 2019-20 to 2020-21 admissions cycles and seems to still be riding that wave.) Pandemic-era test-optional policies largely account for the more competitive recent admissions cycles.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 17, 2023

This represents a slight decrease from Class of 2026 data, which showed an 8% increase over in-state applications from the Class of 2025 application cycle, itself a 23% surge over the prior year’s applications, inspired by “pandemic-year” test-blind policies and the court case that gave them the death knell.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 19, 2024

The number of student veterans on campus has roughly doubled since 2019. BROWN’S CHANGING ADMISSIONS POLICIES Brown University announced in early March that it would once again require students applying for fall 2025 admission to submit either a SAT or ACT score. It is filled with trustees and faculty members.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Test-optional policies brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic account for the highly competitive 2020-21 admissions cycle. Princeton announced its test-optional policy in the summer of 2020 and has since renewed the policy into the 2022-23 admissions cycle (for admission to the Class of 2027).

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

According to a 2019 state law, also authored by Ting and spurred by the Varsity Blues scandal, universities were required to provide annual reports on legacy or donor admissions. That law, however, expired in 2023. In response, several states have taken steps to ban or restrict legacy preferences in public higher education institutions.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 1, 2024

In the last few weeks, both Dartmouth and Yale have decided to end the test-optional policies they adopted during the height of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. Since adopting test-optional, a lot of schools started extending their policies out by years or even indefinitely (like Michigan). And schools love this. acceptance rate.

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

What can we say about test-optional admissions policies today? Just 4% of their member colleges in 2022-23 mandated admission test scores, down from 55% in 2019-20.” • In recent weeks, Columbia University, Vassar College, and all of the State Universities of New York (SUNYs) have announced that they will be permanently test-optional.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Research the transfer credit policies of the colleges you are interested in to determine how the credits you have already taken, or future credit will apply towards your degree program. She joined Georgia Tech in 2019 and currently coordinates Tech’s Transfer Pathway Programs and leads admission staff in file review of transfer applicants.

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Berkeley² Academy

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Today, we’re breaking down recent news surrounding UT Austin’s auto-admission policy and UT tuition coverage, including how these shifts may impact you! This change is already reflected on their website. Last year, UT Austin was ranked #30 in the top US national universities and #7 in the top US public universities.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 24, 2023

First, the overall reliance of standardized test scores has gone down as most colleges and universities chose to extend their pandemic-era testing policies. The push towards test-optional admissions policies also provided colleges and universities with a new tool to grow and, importantly, diversify their applicant pools.

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HelloCollege

AUGUST 27, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM jobs are projected to grow by 8% from 2019 to 2029, compared to 3.7% Similarly, scientists with strong communication skills can more effectively convey their findings to a broader audience, influencing public policy and societal change. According to projections by the U.S. for non-STEM occupations.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This comes after months of public debate on the merits of testing, with some schools extending their “temporary” test-optional undergraduate admissions policy through the 2024 admissions cycle while others are actively reevaluating their stance for future years. The majority of schools remain test optional and will continue to be.

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

JUNE 15, 2021

Research Colleges’ Policies on Food Allergies It is important to research each college’s policy on food allergies as you make your college list. As part of your research, check each college’s policy on menus. Some students choose to commute to a college while living at home because of their food allergies.

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BestColleges

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2019, art professors averaged $83,220 a year (BLS) — not bad! As of 2019, biology majors made a median annual salary of $65,000 a year (BLS). English graduates made a median income of $51,000 in 2019 (BLS). Graduates can get high-paying careers as hospital administrators, policy analysts, and medical service managers.

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Top Tier Admissions

JULY 19, 2023

We know that from the period of 2014-2019, legacy applicants to Harvard enjoyed an admit rate of over 33 percent – a whopping five times greater than non-legacy applicants. At Princeton, the admit rate for legacies was six times the overall admit rate in 2018 , while at Stanford, they were three times as likely for the Class of 2022.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 13, 2023

increase over the 40,248 students who applied in the 2019-20 cycle. Pandemic-era test-optional policies account for the highly competitive 2021-22 admissions cycle. Princeton, by contrast, has not yet extended its policy past the 2022-23 admissions cycle.). Let’s dig into the data. Harvard’s Early Action program is nonbinding.

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BestColleges

MAY 24, 2024

Harrison has served as dean of Berkeley Haas since January 2019. That includes the launch of a dual master's degree program in business and climate solutions with the Rausser College of Natural Resources, as well as a sustainability certificate and a summer minor in sustainable business and policy.

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DC College Counseling

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Third, they concluded that the test-optional policy currently in place “is likely a barrier to Dartmouth identifying less-advantaged students who would succeed at Dartmouth.” Finally, they conclude that the test-optional policy has not increased the number of less-advantaged applicants in the admission pool. Following the U.S.

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Humbach Education Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

According to the Prep Scholar blog (as of May 2019), only 28 colleges require the SAT Essay although a number of other schools recommend it. Therefore, it’s important to check with each school regarding their standardized test policies. Just a note - ALL of the University of California System schools require the SAT Essay.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

The admissions website notes that in 2019, 100% of the medical school’s students passed the United States Medical Licensing Step 1 Exam. Please note, however, that MCAT scores for the 2022–2023 application cycle will be accepted if the examination was taken between September 2019 and September 2022.

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SSA Online College Prep

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more colleges adopt test-optional or test-flexible policies, students and parents are increasingly asking if SAT Ⓡ scores actually matter to colleges. By 2019, more than 1000 schools were test-optional, and by 2023 that number has grown to over 1900. But many top schools still require standardized tests.

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ACM College Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

For the 2021-22 school year, you will file using prior-prior (2019) tax information. So if you are applying for 2021-22, you will use 2019 and 2020 information. For any questions regarding each college's financial aid policy and types of aid awarded, take a look at their website and feel free to reach out to their office.

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CTK College Coach

MARCH 20, 2023

Overall, applications through Common App have increased 30% from three years ago (the 2019-2020 cycle). Why are college admissions now so “unpredictable”? Record numbers of applications: We are still in a post-covid application boom.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

2] Check Hispanic and Latino/a students were more likely to be first-generation college students than any other racial/ethnic group in 2019. [3] 3] Check 67% of Hispanic and Latino/a students attended a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in 2019-2020. [4] April 2019. Census Bureau. Excelencia in Education.

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Admissions Mom

JULY 19, 2024

Colleges & Universities 2021 Working List of Undocumented & DACA Policies for U.S. Colleges & Universities 2021 Working List of Undocumented & DACA Policies for U.S.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 1, 2024

for the Class of 2019. 2019 30,236 6.7% 2019 25,543 5% For perspective, applications nearly doubled between the Class of 2019 and the Class of 2028—from 25,543 to a staggering 46,609. 2019 4,693 16.1% Target test scores Yale’s test-flexible policy gives you options: SAT, ACT, AP, or IB scores—all are fair game.

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BestColleges

MARCH 6, 2024

Ting introduced a similar bill targeting legacy admissions in 2019 after the “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal that involved wealthy families paying to have their children recruited as fake athletes. Legacy admissions are based on privilege and wealth, and diminish the work non-legacy admits do to get into college.

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BestColleges

APRIL 26, 2023

Data from the California Policy Lab for the 2019-2020 academic year showed that 10.2% Through the program, students can receive approximately $230 a month to use at grocery stores and farmer’s markets. of California Community College students (approximately 230,000 students), 11.8%

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 18, 2024

2019 20,505 10.3% for the Class of 2019 to the current level. Test-optional policies introduced during the pandemic expanded the applicant pool, bringing in students who might not have applied otherwise. 2020 18,748 9% 2019 18,646 8.8% Dartmouths Early Decision policy Early Decision at Dartmouth is binding.

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