North Star Admissions Consulting

JULY 2, 2020

Here are some insights about the impact of Covid on college applications. Test Optional v. Test Blind. A growing number of schools, including all 8 Ivy League universities and Stanford, are test optional for the class of 2021. The vast majority of schools are test optional for next year. Early Decision.

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College Essay Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If your GPA is lower than suggested at the time you apply, you may have to perform above average on your standardized tests and be able to demonstrate significant impact in other parts of your life beyond academics like your extracurricular activities. To be competitive, you should aim to score within or above this range.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 9, 2023

This became especially true in 2020, given changes in test administration and colleges’ testing policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years later, colleges continue to update their testing requirements, with some extending their test-optional periods and others opting for permanent changes.

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The Enrollment Marketer

APRIL 4, 2023

Slate: Slate’s CRM allows you to review and manage all interactions, communications, applications, test scores, and application material for all prospective students in the CRM. Build custom reports, custom lists, and view the entire contact property history and contact engagement history of each contact in the HubSpot CRM.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

For example, if you’re losing students prior to application, test marketing messages that create more urgency to apply. And consider implementing more application deadlines to introduce more periods of urgency throughout the enrollment cycle.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 19, 2023

They decided to use college applications, testing, scholarship deadlines, and others to guide their month-by-month timelines for juniors and seniors. "It'd be super helpful, and we see such a neat daily need." They had already built the systems for teaching college preparedness, so they created the timeline to help ease those systems.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 21, 2022

UT-Austin will remain test-optional for Fall/Spring 2023 first-time freshmen applicants. They say simply that all applicants will be reviewed holistically without any additional details. Still, I expect more than three-quarters of UT-Austin applicants to submit their test scores.

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BestColleges

APRIL 17, 2024

The Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program was for students of African descent and required no application or test scores. The merit scholarship required no application, test scores, or other strict eligibility requirements. Supreme Court banned race-conscious college admissions last year.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Harvard University requires much of its applicants if they hope to be successful. Across schools nationwide, standardized testing is a notorious part of the college application process – this article breaks down Harvard-specific ACT requirements and Harvard ACT scores. Should I go test-optional?

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Parry College Counseling: College Admissions Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This process is very tedious, so I recommend starting the app a few weeks early and ensuring you have your HS transcript (+community college transcript if you did dual enrollment) ready to go when you work on the application.

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