Your child may be a motivated self-starter with great grades, but even Nobel Prize winning academics and olympic athletes have mentors and coaches to guide them!
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Another elite college has opted to drop its test-optional policy! Stanford is giving students a break for the 2024-25 cycle, but future applicants will need competitive test scores.
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In a surprise announcement last week, Harvard reversed its previous commitment to test-optional admissions through the 2025-26 cycle. By setting this precedent, we expect to see additional top colleges do the same...
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UPenn follows Cornell and Vanderbilt, but that doesn’t mean students are off the hook for testing if they want to be competitive!
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Yale University's shift to 'test flexible' admissions for fall 2025, following Dartmouth College's lead, underscores a trend in Ivy League institutions.
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On the heels of Dartmouth bringing back their testing requirements, Cornell and Vanderbilt say, “not yet”.
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Dartmouth's reinstatement of standardized testing signals a shift in elite college admissions, challenging test-optional policies and underlining the importance of early test preparation for aspiring students.
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We’ve heard over and over again from colleges that test-optional means that students without test scores won’t be at a disadvantage, but is that really true? Here we breakdown the data that colleges have made public so you can see for yourself.
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The college admissions landscape seems to be in constant flux, and the students at Princeton have been debating the future of test requirements while the administration remains silent.
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We’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop! Nearly three years after the COVID pandemic led nearly every college in the country switch to test-optional admissions, Columbia says test-optional is here to stay. What does this mean for your student?
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to college admissions, including the move to test-optional for many universities. It looks like many of those same schools will not be changing back any time soon. What does that mean for students applying?
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Two years into widespread test-optional policies, and education reporters are getting a better sense of how it’s impacting college admissions.
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Given the impact of COVID-19, the dip in undergraduate enrollment doesn’t come as a surprise. That said, students can expect a spike in the upcoming application cycle and should prepare accordingly.
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Without a doubt, the newly instated test-optional policies have created a false sense of security among students and parents. Standardized test scores still carry serious weight in admissions, as proven by the Georgetown admission stats for class of 2025
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