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Student Data For Sale

Next month, students will receive the results of their PSAT exams taken in October. Many may have indicated that they want to participate in the College Board’s student search service without fully understanding what this entails. To put it simply, the College Board sells student data to various schools, scholarship organizations and for-profit programs, setting […]

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Define Your Values – Refine Your College List

There are over four thousand colleges and universities in the United States, and thousands more across the globe. You’ve heard about some of them from your teachers, school counselors, family members, and friends. You may have read through ranking lists, and perhaps you’re planning to apply to the most highly ranked schools that are in […]

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The Common App for Transfer Students

Last year, the Common App unveiled an entirely new website and interface for transfer applicants. As you begin the application process, you will use the same initial website to create your account but will then be redirected to a new, transfer-specific dashboard, which looks and functions differently than the first-year Common App you’ve seen before. […]

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Avoid Application Procrastination

It’s a beautiful early fall afternoon and you told yourself you would get started on your application essays. Suddenly, it feels like the perfect time to clean your room, start a new series on Netflix, or read the entire Wikipedia page dedicated to the origin and history of the high five. It’s the allure of […]

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SAT Adversity Score and College Admissions

Today’s breaking news is that the College Board (yes, the same people who bring you the SAT, SAT subject tests and AP exams) now plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT. Fifty schools used the score last year as part of a beta test and the College Board says 150 […]

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