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JANUARY 26, 2023

Fall 2020 saw 5.9m At the graduate level, fall 2020 saw 844k fewer all-classroom graduate students, but only 470k returned to the classroom in fall 2021. Further, institutions that have online programs but are reluctant to allow their classroom students to enroll in online courses are going to have to quickly reconsider this policy.

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Berkeley² Academy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As the college admissions process enters the second year of the covid-19 pandemic, you may be wondering if colleges plan on extending their test-optional policies after the Fall 2021 admissions period. UT-Austin - It has updated its policy and WILL be test-optional for Fall 2022 (edited 2/25/21). The Bottom Line.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Data Summary Check Around 23% of college students were food insecure in 2020. [1] 1] Check Food insecurity intensified during COVID-19, with rates of hunger nearly doubling in some states in 2020. [2] of American households were food insecure in 2020. [5] Department of Education, 2020 NPSAS: UG. School of Public Policy.

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Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Financial aid discussions have centered on simplifying FAFSA and increasing federal Pell Grants – all important – but federal student aid policies are only one funding source for families trying to determine how to pay for college. The topic of institutional financial aid policy often takes a backseat to the federal aid policy conversation.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 6, 2023

This year’s admissions cycle featured a test-optional policy for first-year and transfer applicants, continuing a policy first implemented during the 2020-21 admissions cycle due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, Penn Admissions announced the extension of the test-optional policy through the 2023-24 admissions cycle.

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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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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.) 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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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs. Now is the time to proactively plan for what this change in policy could mean for your institution. rate in 2020. This could be a trend that continues in other states.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Some researchers have connected test-optional policies to diversity gains for colleges — specifically, higher rates of application and enrollment for students of underrepresented races and ethnicities. During the pandemic, all of the Ivy-Plus schools implemented an optional standardized test score submission policy.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 12, 2024

Most universities went test-optional during COVID, but many universities are reverting to pre-COVID policies as we exit the pandemic. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what I think or how you, as the applicant and family, should feel about these policies. I hope UT clarifies its policies because this will cause a giant mess.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

The uptick comes in advance of the Supreme Court’s decision on a lawsuit against Harvard brought by Students for Fair Admissions , an anti-affirmative action group that claims the College’s race-conscious admissions policies discriminate against Asian American applicants.

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BestColleges

MARCH 3, 2023

The report calls for universities to have funds transparency, a more rigorous university conflict-of-interest gift policy, and a ban on all fossil fuel funding. The report found that a minimum of $677 million was transferred to 27 universities to fund research, including climate research.

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EAB

MARCH 9, 2023

More on faculty affairs Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs: On-Demand Materials March 2, 2023 How Colleges are Tackling the Growing Childcare Crisis February 14, 2023 BIT/CARE Team Assessment January 23, 2023 Faculty and Staff Mental Health and Wellness Resources Website Audit November 11, 2021 10 tips to make your faculty (..)

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The program is offered through their Honors College and has doubled in size since 2020 alone. According to a 2020 report from the Postsecondary National Policy Institute, for the U.S. December 18, 2020. What community college leaders need to do now to prepare for the 2020 election results. October 15, 2020.

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BestColleges

APRIL 27, 2023

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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Ivy Central

JANUARY 9, 2023

of the US population aged 25 and above had graduated from college or any higher education institution in 2020 as opposed to 7.7% Professors at private unis often have an open door policy and oftentimes also invite students for cookies and tea at their own homes, as they tend to live on the campus or nearby.

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 28, 2023

Sobering data released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicates a sharp drop in math skills among 13-year-olds, scoring on average, 9 points lower than they did in 2020—the lowest achievement in decades. While education policy leaders are calling for nationwide reform, what can YOU do now? Lean into your strengths.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Since 2020, the university has experienced a 25% increase in total applications. Southern Ivies: Class of 2028 Acceptance Rates Standardized Testing Policies: A Shifting Landscape What Are the Little Ivies? For the third consecutive year, W&M saw a record number of early round applicants.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 21, 2025

The University of Miami has announced a significant policy update for prospective students. This marks a shift from the test-optional policy adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. ENROLL NOW What Does This Mean for College Admissions?

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As of this morning, Yale is the second Ivy League school to require standardized test scores, following Dartmouth’s lead and citing research that test-optional policies adversely affect high-scoring low-income students. This new policy will begin with students applying to enter in the fall of 2025.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 4, 2024

2020 38,918 9.4% A big reason for this surge is the rise of test-optional policies and increased global access to higher education. 2020 33,156 7% 2019 31,778 7.5% 2021 6,147 22% 2020 5,762 23.2% Just look at the numbers: UPenn Class Total Applications Overall Acceptance Rate 2028 65,235 5.4% 2027 59,465 5.9%

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BestColleges

APRIL 15, 2024

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.

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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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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 22, 2024

I would also like to update you on what has occurred since my interview in November 2020. As indicated in my secondary application, I completed Booth Fundamentals in December 2020. Ultimately, I view Alpert Medical School as the ideal institution to shape me into the physician scientist and policy expert I hope to become.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 19, 2024

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. Additionally, Brown reviews student veteran applications on a rolling basis but will conclude in April. It is filled with trustees and faculty members.

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 20, 2023

More applications to top schools (driven by test-optional policies) and a clear commitment to a diverse incoming class. Students rightly wonder if those policies are applied evenly across the entire applicant pool. The major trends? But not everyone is smashing records.

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Elite Open School

APRIL 1, 2020

The University of California announced today that it has “temporarily relaxed some undergraduate admissions policies” for the fall 2021 freshman class so that “students are not penalized by their inability to earn letter grades for academic classes or take standardized tests during the COVID-19 pandemic.” You can read UC’s response at [link].

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The ruling has led to renewed scrutiny of other forms of preferential treatment in college admissions, with many advocates arguing that legacy admissions are just as discriminatory as affirmative action policies. In response, several states have taken steps to ban or restrict legacy preferences in public higher education institutions.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Its proposal would revert the department to how it used to handle these issues pre-2020. ED released a request for information regarding its policy on how it treats schools receiving federal grants that are accused of denying freedom of speech rights to religious student organizations.

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BestColleges

JUNE 11, 2024

The university paused its testing requirement in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The university paused its standardized testing requirements in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, offering undergraduate applicants the choice to submit their scores. The test-optional policy will remain for students applying for fall 2024 admission.

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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). I see it in my own practice: schools that would have been unattainable on the numbers in a pre-covid/test required world are now theoretically reachable in a test optional world, starting in the 2020-2021 cycle.

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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. So, what do we know?

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Elite Open School

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Thursday, May 21, 2020, was a momentous day in the history of the University of California. On that day, the University of California Board of Regents (the governing and policy-making body for the entire UC system) unanimously passed UC President Janet Napolitano's proposal to eliminate the SAT and ACT as a requirement on the UC application.

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BestColleges

MAY 23, 2024

in the span of 30 years (1990-2020). Note Reference [1], Note Reference [2] Check Economics students experienced the highest increase in GPA of all majors, with an 18% rise from 1990-2020. Table of Contents Average College GPA Over Time GPA by School Type, 1990-2020 GPA by Major, 1990-2020 Why Does Grade Inflation Happen?

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BestColleges

JUNE 3, 2024

As of 2020, approximately 21% of college students report having a disability. million in 2020. GAO found one instance of a school using an outdated flexible attendance policy. Abiding by that policy resulted in some students not receiving approval for appropriate accommodation. million in 2004 to 3.5

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Ivy Central

MARCH 25, 2023

The study of Psychology can improvise many other occupations like coaching, journalism, careers in education and research; law; medicine and public health; politics and public policy; and in business fields such as marketing, finance, and management. Note: Senior Survey was not distributed in 2020 and 2021).

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