Top Tier Admissions
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. (with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Juniors: now is the time to start showing colleges some love! Demonstrated interest – yours – increasingly is a factor in the admissions selection process. Although admissions officers are fully engaged in the review of applications for the Class […]
Every day things seem to shift and change in the college admissions landscape. Add in a pandemic and things become even murkier. As you know from reading our blog posts, the test-optional narrative isn’t a free pass if you are aiming high. We still recommend that our students prep for and take the ACT or SAT and APs! We will keep you posted on […]
The COVID-19 virus has completely disrupted the world of college admissions, with policy changes in standardized testing, dramatic shifts in opportunities during the school year and summer, and fluctuating statistics in college admissions. The college experience has also been quite transformed through what experts are wryly calling “forced innovations,” although students and professors look forward […]
Another year for the record books, as top colleges and universities see their overall application volumes soar in this most unprecedented cycle. Among the eye-popping statistics we’ve seen, NYU tops 100,000 applications, Harvard’s pool grows by 57 percent, and Colgate receives double the number of applications as compared to last year. TEST-OPTIONAL = DRIVING FORCE […]
The College Board announced today (January 19, 2021) that effective immediately, the SAT subject tests will be discontinued for students in the U.S. and they will be phased out for international students this summer after the May, June test dates. This decision is the culmination of the slow and steady erosion of the subject tests, […]
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