Testing No Longer Required at Colorado Public Universities

Last week, we announced with great excitement that the state of Colorado, the Centennial State, had banned legacy preference in college admissions at the state’s public institutions. No longer would Colorado’s public universities be able to offer advantage to the progeny of a school’s alumni base in the admissions process. … 

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Most Students Submit Test Scores

Earlier this year, we came under fire on a listserv of the National Association for College Admission Counseling — to which we are a member — for a quote we gave to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. So what was the quote you ask? Wonder … 

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Grades and Test Scores Are Not Becoming Less Important in Admissions

There’s an opinion out there in the universe that grades and test scores are becoming less important in the highly selective college admissions process. In fact, there was recently an editorial in “The Atlantic” by Jeffrey Selingo entitled “The Two Most Important College-Admissions Criteria Now Mean Less” that asserted as … 

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