the college spy

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Forward this list to every college bound high school junior you know: In addition to planning for junior prom and learning to parallel park, high school juniors should be doing these things right now: 1. Visit your school counselor and review your senior year courses. If your senior schedule is packed with easy electives, lacks a fourth year of foreign language or math, or allows you to get out of school early so you can maximize your screen time, you need to make some changes.

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ACM College Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As of the end of January, the Common Application reported an increase in application volume of nearly 20% and an increase of 13% in the number of single applicants from the 2019-2020 application cycle. With the increase in number of applications due to reasons such as the ease of applying to more schools via the Common Application and more than 75% of colleges in the US now going test optional or test blind, it makes sense that the acceptance rates at some popular universities are going down.

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