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September 24, 2020

Seniors Should Submit Test Scores

September 23, 2020

Lies, Damned Lies, and College Rankings

September 22, 2020

UC Admissions Audit

More Interested in College Counseling

September 9, 2020

Are more parents and students seeking private college counseling this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Well, we can only speak for our own business but if our business is any indication of a trend in college counseling, the answer is a definitive yes. By our arithmetic, form completions are …

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Shame on Duke’s Fuqua School of Business

September 8, 2020

As loyal readers of our blog know all too well, we have never been afraid to use our soapbox in the arena of admissions to call out admissions practices that we believe aren’t right. We do so in an effort to bend these practices towards a more just system. It …

Categories: Applying to Graduate Schools

Tags: Admission to Duke Fuqua, Duke Fuqua, Duke Fuqua Application, Fuqua, Shame on Duke Fuqua

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A Word to the Class of 2025

September 7, 2020

If you’re a student applying to college this year, you probably already know that with respect to the highly selective college admissions process, you were born in the wrong year. We know it hurts to hear but, hey, we tell it like it is at Ivy Coach. And why were …

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Tags: A Word to the Class of 2025, Admission to College 2025, Class of 2025 Admissions, College Admissions During Pandemic, COVID and Admissions

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Details on Harvard’s Class of 2024

September 6, 2020

Curious to meet the Harvard University Class of 2024? As our readers may remember, we previously detailed the breakdown of Harvard’s incoming class — by gender, race, geography, first-generation college student status, etc. — but, hey, we know our readers are always craving more details. And The Harvard Crimson‘s recent …

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Tags: Details Harvard Class of 2024, Harvard 2024, Harvard 2024 Admissions, Harvard 2024 Profile, Harvard Class of 2024

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Coronavirus Ushering in Admissions Changes

September 5, 2020

Will the COVID-19 pandemic inspire real, lasting change in the highly selective college admissions process or are the changes for this admissions cycle only temporary? There’s an editorial in today’s New York Times by Frank Bruni, “The Coronavirus May Change College Admissions Forever,” that praises the release of a forthcoming …

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Tags: Admissions Changes, Changes to Admissions, Changes to Elite College Admissions, College Admissions Changes, Ivy League Admissions Changes

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Elite College Admissions Is Not Arbitrary

September 4, 2020

There are a couple of letters to the editor in The Wall Street Journal today under a headline that reads “The Arbitrariness of Elite College Admissions.” As our loyal readers know all too well, the core objective of this college admissions blog is to demystify the highly selective college admissions …

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UC Schools Developing New Admissions Test

September 3, 2020

A few months back when the University of California system announced the suspension of the standardized testing requirement for California residents, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced, “Today’s decision by the Board marks a significant change for the University’s undergraduate admissions. We are removing the ACT/SAT requirement for California …

Categories: Standardized Testing

Tags: ACT at UC Schools, SAT and ACT at University of California, SAT at UC Schools, UC Admissions Test, UC Schools Developing New Admissions Test

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Consideration of SAT or ACT at University of California Schools

September 2, 2020

Just months ago, the University of California’s Board of Regents waived the SAT / ACT testing requirement at the UC schools for the Classes of 2025 and 2026. They also announced that for the Classes of 2027 and 2028, the UC schools would no longer consider the submission of these …

Categories: Standardized Testing

Tags: ACT at UC Schools, Consideration of ACT at UC Schools, Consideration of SAT at UC Schools, SAT and ACT at UC Universities, SAT at UC Schools

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The Resilience of the Class of 2024

September 1, 2020 Each year, admissions officers at our nation’s most elite universities boast how they’ve secured the greatest class ever — the highest achieving, the most diverse, the most engaged, you name it. But of course, most years, admissions officers essentially cut and paste how they describe each incoming class, changing only …

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Tags: Admission to Class of 2024, Class of 2024 Admissions, Duke Admissions, Duke Class of 2024, Resilience of Class of 2024

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NACAC Issues Report on Testing

August 31, 2020

The National Association for College Admission Counseling, an organization to which we are a member, has published a report that essentially calls on colleges to reconsider testing requirements in the admissions process post-pandemic. You see, while so many elite universities have gone test-optional this year due to the pandemic, NACAC …

Categories: Standardized Testing

Tags: NACAC Issues Report on Testing, NACAC Report, Test Optional Policies, Test Optional Post Pandemic, Test Optional Schools

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