by Susan Osborn | Jul 28, 2020 | College Admissions
While college admissions officers used to admit students primarily based on their GPAs and SAT/ACT scores, that’s no longer true. In fact, during the past 10 years, as competition for college admission has continued to increase year after year, college admissions...
by Susan Osborn | Jul 13, 2020 | College Admissions
Letters of recommendation help admissions officers determine who is likely to succeed on campus. All of a child’s hard work in high school is reflected in the student’s transcript and test scores, and all of your child’s activities are shown on the extracurricular...
by Susan Osborn | Jun 29, 2020 | College Admissions
In 2018, when the Students for Fair Admissions alleged that Harvard discriminated against Asian-American applicants, they forced the release of once confidential admissions information, and that exposure revealed much about the inner workings of the admissions process...
by Susan Osborn | Jun 16, 2020 | College Admissions, SAT/ACT Test Prep
In an unprecedented move, 20 of the top colleges in the country have instituted test-optional policies for students applying in the 2020-2021 admission cycle. Of those 20, four are Ivy League universities: University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Columbia...
by Susan Osborn | May 30, 2020 | College Admissions
Since schools shut down, educators have been bracing for the worst academic “summer slide” in history. But new research suggests that the so-called coronavirus or “COVID slide” is going to be even worse than feared. Projections suggest major academic...
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