The seasons aren’t the only things changing this time of year: the Common App also got a makeover. Almost all of the prompts have been revised, and there are even two new prompts, including what’s basically a “write whatever you want” option. How to choose? Shmoop (https://www.shmoop.com), a digital publisher known for its award-winning test […]
Read More »By Elissa Nadworny (NPR). When Anna Neuman was applying to college, there weren’t a lot of people around to help her. Students from her high school in Maryland rarely went on to competitive colleges, the school counselor worked at several schools and was hard to pin down for meetings and neither of her parents had […]
Read More »(Daily Californian) by Audrey McNamara. The University of California released fall 2017 admission data today. The data reflects a 1.7 percent drop in California resident admission. Due to last year’s abnormally large in-state class — adding an additional 7,500 in-state students, the university is still on track to meet its goal of adding 10,000 California students by […]
Read More »(Business Insider) by John Marcus. DELAWARE, Ohio — Behind the deceptive quiet of a small college campus in the summer, things are buzzing at Ohio Wesleyan University. Faculty at the 175-year-old liberal-arts school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields including data analytics and computational neuroscience. Admissions officers are back […]
Read More »By Willard Dix | Once a cozy collection of fifteen or so private liberal arts colleges sharing one application form, the non-profit Common Application has grown into an organization that encompasses 702 institutions ranging from Harvard, Yale and Amherst to Appalachian State and the University of Wyoming. As the name indicates, it enables students to create an account and […]
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