The College Curators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, and Stanford have all recently announced that they will remain test optional through the high school class of 2023, with Cornell going a step.

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The College Solutions Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

By now, most students, who will be college freshmen in the fall, have received their award letters from colleges. Families, however, are at a disadvantage when they look at these college awards. They typically have no idea if the offer of financial aid or a merit scholarship is a good one. Families don’t know if teenagers with similar financial circumstances and academic profiles received better awards from the same schools.

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Parry College Counseling: College Admissions Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

College: Clark University. Location: Worcester, MA (about 50 minutes from Boston). Type of Institution: private research university. Size: 2,200 undergraduates, 800 graduate students. Admissions Advice: Clark University has a very holistic application process (and yes, that means test-optional ). They ask for the Common Application, a supplemental essay, and also encourage interviews for all prospective students.

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AHM Advising

MARCH 3, 2022

The Common Application recently published a report of application trends through February 15, 2022. Here are the big takeaways: 1) Since 2019-2020 there has been a 20.8% increase in applications submitted to colleges through the Common App. 2) Students are applying to an average of 5.6 schools. 3) Applications across underrepresented subgroups have increased at a higher rate than those from non-underrepresented groups during the same time frame (17% vs. 13%). 4) There has been a 21% increase in

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