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Phil Hill Talks About the Impact of New IPEDS Data on Institutions and EdTech

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Phil Hill : A big part of writing both the blog on the 2019-20 data and the 2020-21 data blog (on the need to focus on 12-month unduplicated enrollment rather than fall snapshot) was to point out how much we’ve needed this type of data. It’s not just a wonky issue with some minor data differences.

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Yale Adopts ‘Test-Flexible’ Policy

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Details on Yale's New Policy Starting in fall 2025, Yale will require test scores but will allow students to submit Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) exam scores in lieu of the SAT or ACT. Like Dartmouth College , Yale determined that, contrary to popularly held beliefs, such a policy can actually bolster diversity.

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Making Sense of Colleges’ Changing Test Policies

Discovery College Consulting

The terms themselves are confusing, and recent shifts in colleges’ policies are even more so. One of the most prominent arguments in favor of test-optional policies is that they help level the admissions playing field for underrepresented minority, first-generation, and low-income students. Test-optional. Test-flexible.

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Liberal Arts College Acceptance Rates: Increase Your Odds

Top Tier Admissions

(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.) increase in applications between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 cycles and a decrease in acceptance rate from 8.74% to 6.93%; Pomona saw a 4.9%

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Princeton Acceptance Rate: How to Get Into Princeton

Top Tier Admissions

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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Athletic Recruitment at Elite Colleges Skews Wealthy and White

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Kirsten Hextrum, an assistant professor at Oregon State University, estimated in 2020 that about 72% of women college athletes and 64% of men college athletes were white. Yale averages around 13%, and Harvard's class of 2020 had 10%. Participation rates at other elite schools fall somewhere in between.

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Harvard Reinstates Standardized Testing

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Like many colleges, Harvard suspended its standardized test requirement when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. Caltech does not consider SAT or ACT testing, its website stated until its policy reversal. But now Harvard is essentially shaving off those last two years of test-optional admissions. Exclamation mark. Don't send it.