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Johns Hopkins Reinstates Standardized Testing

BestColleges

Students applying in fall 2025 must submit SAT or ACT scores, while those applying this fall are encouraged to do so. Beginning in fall 2025, students applying to the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering will be required to submit either SAT or ACT scores.

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UGA 2024 Early Action Updates

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

We have gone from roughly 11,000 EA applicants in 2014 to almost 27,000 EA applicants this year, and we expect the overall applicant pool (EA and RD together) to show similar growth. UGA mid-50% GPA Average – 3.81-4.22 4.22 – This is calculated by UGA using core classes, and not the GPA seen on the HS transcript.

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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me: Getting Real About Goals, Failure, and Digging Deep

Ruffaloni

In 2014, our enrollment had been flat—if slightly dropping—for four years when our new president decided we should turn it around with either a tuition reset or a revised financial aid strategy. The academic caliber of students—measured by ACT/SAT test scores and GPA—has risen. Retention is up 9 points to 74 percent.

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The Problem with Grade Inflation

Discovery College Consulting

USA Today reported that from 1998 to 2016, average high school GPAs rose from 3.27 to 3.38, but average SAT scores fell from 1026 to 1002. And, Drew Riley, Director of Admission at Denison University, explained that the admissions office can see the GPA of every student who has applied from a particular high school.

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12 Reasons Scattergrams Lull Students Into a False Sense of Security

Admissions.Blog

Scattergrams purport to show a student’s chances of admission at different colleges and universities by plotting previous students from a particular high school on an x/y axis graph based on such students’ GPAs on one axis and their test scores (ACT or SAT) on the other. Two images of scattergrams are included below.

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Duke Legacy Strategy

The Koppelman Group

The study found that between 2014 and 2019, Harvard let in around 30% of legacies. To be a competitive candidate, your student should do a couple of things: Get great grades If you google "Duke average accepted GPA" you will get a lot of third-party unverified blogs claiming that it's 4.13. Why are we talking about Harvard?

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Harvard Legacy Strategy

The Koppelman Group

Between 2014 and 2019 , the acceptance rate for legacies was 33 percent while Harvard’s overall acceptance rate was about 6 percent. GPA” to get into Harvard. GPA, but if your kid has a 3.6, And that GPA should come from the most challenging classes. Perfect grades. will not cut it. Not everyone got a 4.1

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