BestColleges

MARCH 8, 2024

Brown becomes the third Ivy League school, following Yale and Dartmouth, to reinstate standardized testing requirements. The university also announced it will continue to offer an Early Decision option and maintain legacy preferences. So did Dartmouth, which became the first Ivy to return to standardized testing.

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Admissions Village

JUNE 19, 2024

Admissions Decision: The outcome determined by a college's admissions committee regarding a student's application. Possible decisions include acceptance/admission, deferral to the regular decision pool (for applications submitted in the early rounds), placement on a waitlist, or denial of admission.

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BestColleges

MARCH 12, 2024

The University of Pennsylvania will extend its test-optional policy for another year. Penn's announcement follows news that Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown will reinstate standardized test requirements beginning next fall. Test-optional colleges could realize a competitive admissions advantage over rivals that require scores.

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The Thoughtful College Search

MARCH 18, 2024

Yale University , Brown University , and the University of Texas at Austin have all joined Dartmouth College in announcing that they will return to requiring applicants to submit standardized test scores, ending the test-optional policies they put in place back in 2020 when the pandemic prevented students from taking standardized tests.

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the college spy

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The role of standardized tests in the college admissions process has always been difficult to understand, with most people overestimating their importance at most colleges. The following is The College Spy’s guide to what students and parents need to understand about the changing landscape of standardized testing in college admissions.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

UCLA Regular, Early Action, and Early Decision Acceptance Rates UCLA does not have any Early Action or Early Decision options. During UCLA’s regular decision cycle, it received 149,815 applications and accepted 12,844 students (9%). UCLA is the most applied to school in the country.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even though some of the elective classes won’t be focused on as much for admission review, it’s best to show strong performance in every class that will appear on your transcript so that the admission office is confident in your academic ability and work ethic (and so you don’t make the reader wonder why you barely passed PE!).

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