(Buzzfeed) by Molly Hensley-Clancy. Princeton is scrambling to prevent the release of a trove of its most sensitive admissions documents, including individual student files and information about how the school judges and selects its freshman class. The data was provided to the Education Department as part of a years-long investigation, making it subject to Freedom […]
Read More »According to The Princeton Review’s 2017 College Hopes & Worries Survey, the company’s 15th annual survey of college applicants and their parents, anxiety levels about the admission process are up this year. 76% of the over 10,000 respondents reported high levels of stress—4% more than last year’s survey respondents, and 20% more than in the survey’s initial […]
Read More »(Admissions Intel) by Nancy Griesemer. Students submitting ACT scores to Georgetown University this year could have been at an admissions disadvantage relative to those submitting results from the new or “redesigned” SAT, according to a statement made last week by Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon. “A lot of people are advised by their high school counselors maybe to take the […]
Read More »NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan Test Prep will hold the industry’s first-ever free, live, online ACT Prepathon on Saturday, March 25, between 12 PM ET and 6 PM ET to help students get ready for the April 8 Test Day. This innovative prep event will feature live expert instruction from some of Kaplan’s most highly rated teachers […]
Read More »(Edweek) By Jaclyn Zubrzycki. The number of high school students taking Advanced Placement exams continued to grow last year, and more of the test-takers were from low-income families, according to the College Board’s latest annual report on the program. In the high school graduating class of 2016, 1.1 million students took at least one Advanced […]
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