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As of this morning, Brown is the third Ivy League school to reinstate standardized test scores, following Yale and Dartmouth’s lead and citing academic performance as the leading factor that influenced the decision. This announcement comes after an evaluation of the University’s undergraduate admissions policies was conducted by a committee appointed by President Christina H. Paxson and […]
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. In a written statement, Jeremiah Quinlan, the dean of undergraduate […]
With the promise of spring on the horizon, we are nearing the time when colleges and universities will release their regular decision notifications. Waiting for these updates can be stressful, so to help alleviate some of that anxiety, we’ve compiled a list of regular decision notification dates for some of the top schools in the […]
Next up in our series highlighting early round acceptance rates at top colleges is Dartmouth College — an Ivy League institution located in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouth has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,500, most of whom live on campus. Around 60% of students are involved in Greek life and 25% participate in a Division […]
This morning, Dartmouth College announced that they are reactivating the standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admission, effective with the Class of 2029. 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 […]
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