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Rick Clark is the admissions director at Georgia Tech, a selective university that has become more selective each year. He wants kids to know that they should not fear the process of getting into college. Most colleges accept most applicants,

Congratulations! What? The University of Maryland has a somewhat bewildering array of offers of admission to their Early Action applicants. (You pretty much have to apply Early Action because UMD selects 90 percent of their freshman class from that pool.)

Early action applicants to the University of Maryland, College Park, got their answers the end of January. Several positive outcomes were possible, but what do these outcomes mean? Limited Enrollment Programs Students who applied to a Limited Enrollment Program (LEP),

Syracuse University has a strong support system for students with learning differences. Staff point out that students transitioning from high school to college should expect to find differences in student responsibilities, parent roles, types of accommodations, and teacher engagement. However,

Harvey Mudd College is the STEM school of the five undergraduates schools within the Claremont Colleges, joining Pitzer, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, and Pomona. These schools, plus two graduate institutes, lie within a square mile 35 miles east of Los Angeles.

The bottom lines:  1. Be careful about the conclusions you draw from numbers showing that a greater percentage of admitted students submitted test scores. Test scores often correlate to achievement in the classroom, so those with high scores most often

College Essay Guy The College Essay Guy, Ethan Sawyer, collaborated with financial aid expert Jeff Levy and others to put together this simple guide to paying for college. Check it out at the link below: https://www.collegeessayguy.com/paying-for-college/home

The RPI Open House Nov. 14 conveyed the strength and flexibility of its programs. Rensselaer, in Troy, New York, comprises six schools: Engineering; Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences; the Lally School of Management; the School of Science; and Information Technology

Rick Clark, director of undergraduate admissions for the highly selective Georgia Tech, always writes an engaging blog, but this one is a gem! I love the photo of his daughter. On Sunday after lunch, I was watching college football highlights,

From The Chronicle of Higher Education Reporter’s Notebook: The weakening grip of standardized tests. From our Eric Hoover: Since March 2020, I’ve written more articles about standardized testing than about anything else in the admissions realm. After all, the pandemic forced many