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The Common Data Set Explained: GPA, Test Scores, and What Colleges Really Want

Emerging College Consulting

If you’re helping a high school student research colleges, you’ve probably run into a lot of promotional language: small class sizes, holistic admissions, vibrant campus life. The Common Data Set is a goldmine of clear, consistent, and comparable college data—and it’s one of the best-kept secrets in the college planning process.

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The Truth About Reddit's Applying to College (From Someone Who Helped Start It)

Tex Admissions

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from the South Korean side Optimism about A2C quickly vanished Many of you may not know this, but I joined Reddit’s Applying to College when it had less than 3,000 members. Jealousy and resentment on college admissions forums and social media produce a crab mentality of “if I can’t have it, neither can you.”

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‘Exclusion U’ Documentary Exposes Ivy League Elitism

BestColleges

The film calls on the Ivies to expand enrollments and support their communities. A new documentary takes aim at the Ivy League, casting the eight private colleges in a largely unfavorable light. Student testimonials bear this out, at least anecdotally. How convincing are the film's arguments?

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Colleges Respond to FAFSA Delays

Discovery College Consulting

Furthermore, although the Department of Education said in December that colleges would receive students’ FAFSA information in late January, it announced on January 30 that colleges would not receive this information until March. But only a few hundred colleges, most of which are selective private schools, require the Profile.

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Notes from my Georgia Tech Visit

ACM College Consulting

As one of the nation’s top public research universities GA Tech offers more than 39 majors within their six colleges of Computing, Design, Engineering, Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Business. Currently, they enroll close to 20k undergraduate and 28k graduate students with more than 1000 transfer students each year.

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How the Supreme Court Could Change College Admissions

Discovery College Consulting

Many legal experts, higher education professionals, and journalists expect that the Court will rule in favor of SFFA, thus overturning more than 40 years of legal precedent that has allowed the use of race in college admissions. There is a great deal of speculation that colleges will abandon the use of legacy admissions as well.

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How to Apply for Florida Bright Futures

ACM College Consulting

If you are planning on or even considering attending college in Florida, you need to know this information and the earlier, the better. Students can send their test scores by simply requesting an official test score to be sent to any of the 12 Florida sate universities, state colleges or public high schools.