Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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 stance for future years. The majority of schools remain test optional and will continue to be.

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BestColleges

JULY 20, 2023

The brief from military leadership points out that in 2019, 36% of active-duty officers were ROTC-commissioned. What's more, ROTC has been the primary source of minority officers, the brief details, with 29% of Black and 32% of Hispanic officers earning commissions through ROTC in 2019.

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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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BestColleges

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2019, art professors averaged $83,220 a year (BLS) — not bad! As of 2019, biology majors made a median annual salary of $65,000 a year (BLS). English graduates made a median income of $51,000 in 2019 (BLS). Graduates can get high-paying careers as hospital administrators, policy analysts, and medical service managers.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Research the transfer credit policies of the colleges you are interested in to determine how the credits you have already taken, or future credit will apply towards your degree program. She joined Georgia Tech in 2019 and currently coordinates Tech’s Transfer Pathway Programs and leads admission staff in file review of transfer applicants.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Phil Hill : A big part of writing both the blog on the 2019-20 data and the 2020-21 data blog (on the need to focus on 12-month unduplicated enrollment rather than fall snapshot) was to point out how much we’ve needed this type of data. Here is an abridged summary of our conversation.

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BestColleges

APRIL 20, 2023

It's an economic engine that in 2019 inspired incoming Humboldt State University President Tom Jackson to wonder: Why didn't the institution have an academic program studying cannabis? The program is "foundationally ethnobotanical," Corva explained. Preparing Students for Array of Cannabis Careers Combined U.S.

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BestColleges

MARCH 6, 2024

Ting introduced a similar bill targeting legacy admissions in 2019 after the “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal that involved wealthy families paying to have their children recruited as fake athletes. Legacy admissions are based on privilege and wealth, and diminish the work non-legacy admits do to get into college.

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SSA Online College Prep

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more colleges adopt test-optional or test-flexible policies, students and parents are increasingly asking if SAT Ⓡ scores actually matter to colleges. By 2019, more than 1000 schools were test-optional, and by 2023 that number has grown to over 1900. But many top schools still require standardized tests.

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Ruffaloni

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the November blog indicated that Snapshot Data undercounted total enrollment by nearly 6 million students in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), I didn’t go too far into where these missing students were hidden. Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

million fewer tradit ional - aged (18 - 24) college students in 2022 from 2019. Research from the United States Department of Education shows 1.2

Education 98

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BestColleges

MARCH 20, 2024

Both private and public universities have policies favoring legacy students. Supreme Court has banned the traditional form of affirmative action, legislators want to end legacy admissions, and colleges themselves are rethinking their policies. The likelihood of legacy preferences increases with institutional selectivity.

Admissions 52

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BestColleges

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The brief from military leadership points out that in 2019, 36% of active-duty officers were ROTC-commissioned. What's more, ROTC has been the primary source of minority officers, the brief details, with 29% of Black and 32% of Hispanic officers earning commissions through ROTC in 2019.

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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.) Pandemic-era test-optional policies largely account for the more competitive recent admissions cycles.

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BestColleges

APRIL 17, 2023

Education leaders and policy makers need to act to meet the needs of our students and state." More than 20,000 students earned bachelor's degrees at community colleges in 2019, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. California Gov.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

According to a Ruffalo Noel Levitz analysis of the CASE VSE survey, “of the 667 institutions that reported in both 2019 and 2022, 81 percent are down on [alumni] donor count between these times.” Appealing to a graduate’s sense of obligation, sense of community or nostalgia will no longer be enough to engage them as donors.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 22, 2024

A good GRE score by percentile Below is a table of GRE percentiles based on data from 2019-2022 : Percentile Verbal Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Analytical Writing 50th 152 156-157 3.5-4.0 program in Health Policy (ranked #1 in 2020) successful applicants usually score in the 80th percentile or higher. 75th 157-158 164-165 4.0-4.5

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic payment pause, the three-year student loan default rate was 10.1%. A borrower’s federal student loans enter default after nine months of continual missed payments.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The 2019 Campus Computing Project survey of chief information officers and senior campus officials found the following (4): %. Embracing big data in complex educational systems: The learning analytics imperative and the policy challenge. In reality, education lags behind all other sectors in adoption of analytics solutions (3).

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

What can we say about test-optional admissions policies today? Just 4% of their member colleges in 2022-23 mandated admission test scores, down from 55% in 2019-20.” • In recent weeks, Columbia University, Vassar College, and all of the State Universities of New York (SUNYs) have announced that they will be permanently test-optional.

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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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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The college offered 157 online courses in spring 2019, compared to 329 course offerings in spring 2023, which is a 109% increase in the number of courses. The College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs has seen a rapid increase in online courses offered over the past four years.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2019, EAB put together a “Building trauma-sensitive schools” handout that includes information from the U.S. The active shooter on campus in the spring of 2019 not only took lives but disrupted the community (and even our beautiful scale-up active learning classroom). It is no longer just personal, family, and generational trauma.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Additionally, Black infants face twice the mortality rate of white infants, and maternal mortality rates have increased since 2019. In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for Black women reached 70%, a significant rise from 44% in 2019.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Applications to public members (82%) grew more than those to private members since 2019–20 (47%). Growth in applications since 2019–20 was slowest for those most selective institutions (admit rates below 25%) and highest for more selective institutions (admit rates between 50% and 74%). Scores continue to matter.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Various colleges and states have undertaken guaranteed admission policies to boost enrollment and increase access for students. The UT Promise program launched in 2019 and initially required students to have a household income of $50,000 or less. Eligibility was expanded to $60,000 in 2021.

High School 52

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BestColleges

JUNE 30, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Admissions offices will have to adjust their policies in light of this decision but will continue to consider students holistically. And what are the potential repercussions of this landmark decision?

Minor 52

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DC College Counseling

MARCH 20, 2023

While this is an indication of the direction the student body is leaning, the vote is non-binding, and Wellesley admissions has announced that they will stick with their original policy of not offering admission to trans men. So far, one New College student has transferred and four others have applied.

Transfer 52

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DC College Counseling

MARCH 20, 2023

While this is an indication of the direction the student body is leaning, the vote is non-binding, and Wellesley admissions has announced that they will stick with their original policy of not offering admission to trans men. So far, one New College student has transferred and four others have applied.

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Top Tier Admissions

JULY 19, 2023

We know that from the period of 2014-2019, legacy applicants to Harvard enjoyed an admit rate of over 33 percent – a whopping five times greater than non-legacy applicants. At Princeton, the admit rate for legacies was six times the overall admit rate in 2018 , while at Stanford, they were three times as likely for the Class of 2022.

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BestColleges

APRIL 5, 2023

Many grads become writers, editors, or journalists, who earn a median annual salary of $51,000 ( BLS, 2019 ). Environmental Policy Programs Get an accelerated online degree in environmental policy if you're committed to sustainability and want to pursue environmental-related careers.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He is a 2019 Coca-Cola Scholar (150 out of 100,000 applicants) and hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating high school, Bryan took a gap year in China, where he interned for Pfizer.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The comments also point out that now-Undersecretary of Education James Kvaal signed off on a letter in 2019 essentially making the same argument. Separate comment letters from Third Way , the Institute for Higher Education Policy , and New America urged the department to use a debt-to-earnings ratio to determine low financial value.

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ACM College Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

For the 2021-22 school year, you will file using prior-prior (2019) tax information. So if you are applying for 2021-22, you will use 2019 and 2020 information. For any questions regarding each college's financial aid policy and types of aid awarded, take a look at their website and feel free to reach out to their office.

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Discovery College Consulting

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Bowdoin College became the first test-optional college in 1969, and by 2019, over 1,000 accredited schools (roughly one-third of all accredited institutions) had joined the test-optional movement. The list of colleges with that policy includes those in the University of California and California State systems and only a few private schools.

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Humbach Education Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

According to the Prep Scholar blog (as of May 2019), only 28 colleges require the SAT Essay although a number of other schools recommend it. Therefore, it’s important to check with each school regarding their standardized test policies. Just a note - ALL of the University of California System schools require the SAT Essay.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 15, 2023

Coursework includes Advanced Investment Analysis, Microeconomics, International Finance, Banking and Financial Intermediation (which emphasizes banking), Security Market Policy, and more. Berkeley Business is a top destination for recent Berkeley grads according to a survey for grads 2019-2021.

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