by Susan Osborn | May 30, 2020 | College Admissions
Historic Academic Summer Slide Expected 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....
by Susan Osborn | May 24, 2020 | College Admissions
Will Colleges Open This Fall? The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted every aspect of American life, including higher education. As a result, many are wondering what college life will look like this fall. Will the Ivy League and other colleges be open for business as...
by Susan Osborn | May 16, 2020 | College Admissions
College Application Essays: The Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Why You Should Start Writing in the Summer In 2017, I wrote an article titled “Why Students Should Start Working on Common Application Essays the Summer Before Senior Year.” Because the Common...
by Susan Osborn | May 10, 2020 | College Admissions
Will It Be Harder to Get into the Ivy League This Year? In a recent Fox Business report titled “Coronavirus is Changing the College Admissions Process, Especially for Elite Schools,” Ann Schmidt suggested that college applicants’ chances at admission will be...
by Susan Osborn | May 3, 2020 | College Admissions
Why Students Still Need to Take the SAT and ACT Even Though Some Colleges Temporarily Drop the Requirement During the past few weeks, Cornell University, along with a number of other top-tier colleges and universities, announced that students applying to Cornell this...
by Susan Osborn | Apr 20, 2020 | College Admissions
Ivy League Acceptance Rates Tick Up for the First Time in Years After years of record low acceptance rates, this spring, Harvard University, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania posted increased acceptance rates for the first-year class that will begin...
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