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Success & Peaceful Coexistence During Covid: Strategies for Parents and Children Living, Working, and Learning Together at Home

Expert Admissions co-hosted a webinar entitled, “Success & Peaceful Coexistence During Covid: Strategies for Parents & Students.” The webinar provided tips for families of high school students embarking on the college application process as well as advice for families with college students and younger students living and learning at home.

Sweeping SAT Cancellations, Covid Impacts In-Person Learning, and NCAA Waives Testing

The big news this week was colleges’ quick change of plans after welcoming students to campus, plus some more standardized testing news. Following a campus outbreak, Notre Dame is moving to remote instruction for two weeks in an attempt to curb the spread of Covid-19 on campus, warning that it might send students home if the numbers […]

Reflections on the College Process From An Incoming College Freshman

As August quickly approaches and college move-in notifications pour in, I’ve been reflecting on my last year of high school and the college application process. About a year ago, my anxious self had little to no idea of the path I wanted to take in college. I thought I needed to create the “perfect” application […]

More ACT Woes, Michigan Pushes Back Its Deadline, and the Return of Campus Tours

This week, ACT gave online registration another try, Michigan pushed its Early Action deadline back, and grad schools are grappling with test-optional admissions. ACT gave registration a second try this week and it was another Monday full of frustrations. Once Monday’s mess was over, however, several students had success getting seats for September and October (and […]

ACT Woes, UW-Madison Suspends Testing Requirement, and Covid on Campus

The big news this week was ACT registration (or lack thereof), in addition to some announcements relating to Fall 2020 reopenings. ACT’s system crashed on Monday, leaving thousands of students without a test date for fall (at least for now). In response to the system overload, ACT shut down registration and announced that it’ll open up again on […]

Large State Systems Go Test-Optional, College Fairs Go Virtual, and Only Some Students Welcome on Campus Next Year

There’s some more test-optional news this week, and fall plans continue to evolve as many colleges near their opening days for first-year students. The University of North Carolina, University of Tampa, University of Tennesse-Knoxville, and UMass-Amherst all announced test-optional policies. The reversal of last week’s ICE ruling reverted to an old policy that protected some international students but not others: the old […]

Strict Guidelines for Campus Life, Changes to Fall Sports, and MIT Goes Test-Optional

From a whole new world of college sports to the new rules of on-campus socializing, college admissions news largely focused on policies relating to Fall 2020 this week. And keeping the test-optional news going, MIT is now added to the list. In application news, MIT suspended its SAT/ACT testing requirement for the 2020-2021 admissions cycle and Johns Hopkins added Early […]

What Colleges Care About During This Time of Crisis

So much has been changed and impacted by the Covid pandemic, including the college application process. Dozens of colleges have announced changes to their testing policies for the next application cycle (more than half of US colleges are test-optional for 2020-2021), and over 300 college admissions deans recently endorsed a statement highlighting what they would […]