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| Feb 18, 2025 | National Politics | Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money | The guidance drew sharp backlash from civil rights groups and university groups. Some believe its vague language is meant to have a chilling effect, pressuring schools to eliminate anything touching on the topic of race even if it may be de... |
| May 29, 2024 | Business | Still waiting on financial aid offers? Here’s what you can do now | Be transparent with potential schools
To give students and families more time to receive and consider financial aid offers, 63% of public four-year colleges have extended their decision deadlines, according to NASFAA. Typical May 1 deadline... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Race-Conscious Admission: Getting The Educational House In Order | getty |
| Mar 13, 2023 | College Rankings Withdrawal | getty |
| Jun 11, 2022 | Outlier.org Partners With Several Others To Offer Free College Prep Course | Outlier.org's new three-hour course on preparing for college will be widely distributed by a network ... [+] of organizations seeking to increase college success. getty |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Kweller Prep Tutoring and Educational Services, Inc. Opens Hamptons Location | Luck and Chance Do Not Determine Success; Hard Work and Sacrifice Do.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. (PRWEB) March 23, 2022
Kweller Prep Tutoring and Educational Services, Inc. is expanding East. "We are excited to serve the Hamptons communit... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Fiveable’s Series A | Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden
Inequities in our education system are well-documented. High-quality instructors, college prep classes, and affordable test prep materials are unevenly distributed. However, learners in today’s classrooms don’t... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Higher Ed Groups Call On U.S. News To Stop Using SAT/ACT Scores In Its College Rankings | There are new calls for ending the use of standardized admission test scores in the ranking of ... [+] colleges. They should be heeded. getty |
| Apr 26, 2021 | It’s Not Too Late To Apply To College | Several misconceptions have taken hold in college admissions, and it’s time we confronted them, as they create serious confusion for students and their families. These myths have been around for a long time, and are even more troubling this... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Are You a Digital Threat to Your College? Read This to Find Out | There are approximately 3,700 higher ed institutions in the U.S. There are about 1,329,900 teachers employed by these institutions. Add in roughly 144,880 administrators, and that means nearly 1.5 million post-secondary educators are at ris... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | America Needs More School Counselors | School Counselor Meets with Studentgetty |
| Nov 17, 2020 | How To Help College Applicants Get Financial Aid During Covid | |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Fact-Checking College Admission | getty |
| Sep 8, 2020 | Trailblazers: Gefen Skolnick, Entrepreneur, Community Organizer And Venture Investor | OwnTrail, Gefen Skolnick |
| Sep 1, 2020 | A Court Orders The University Of California Not To Use The SAT Or ACT During The Pandemic | Students with disabilities have not been able to be tested with the accommodations they need during ... [+] the pandemicGetty Images |
| Aug 18, 2020 | The August SAT Is Cancelled For Nearly Half Of Students | Students who take the test have to wear masks throughout the three-hour exam.getty |
| May 31, 2020 | You Have Been Accepted To College For The Fall. Should You Go? | As an entering college freshman for the fall, you have many choices. You can attend the college you had originally planned to attend. If it’s open and teaching in-person you can choose to go to campus. If it’s open and teaching online, you ... |
| May 6, 2020 | Don’t Worry, It’s Not Too Late To Get Into The College Of Your Choice | NORTON, MA - APRIL 17: Nick Lebel, pictured in Norton, MA on April 18, 2020, is a high school senior ... [+] in Norton who was set to go to Marist College's Dublin program in the fall. Now, there's a chance it may be cancelled. He never got... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | A Historic DOJ Case Impacts College Admissions In The Era Of COVID-19 | College financial aid offices are bracing for a spike in appeals from students finding that the aid ... [+] packages they were offered for next year are no longer enough after the coronavirus pandemic cost their parents jobs or income. Phot... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | 7 Essential College Admissions Resources During Coronavirus 2020 | Seniors at Columbia University wearing graduation gowns stand for photographs before campus closes ... [+] as a precaution to the coronavirus pandemic in New York, U.S., on Monday, March 16, 2020. The governors of New York, New Jersey and C... |
| Mar 18, 2020 | As Coronavirus Closes Colleges, the Campus Tour Goes Virtual | When a cardboard virtual reality headset from University of Oregon arrived in the mail earlier this year, high school senior Risa Carter saw the device as an interesting attempt by one university to stand out from others at a time when stud... |
| Nov 5, 2019 | Looking for College in All the Wrong Places: How to Help Students Discover What Matters | The choices are overwhelming, and the stakes are high. Searching for colleges where they will thrive, students compile their lists using standard metrics—size, location, major—unaware that they are eliminating some great options. The choice... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | Go deeper: Why colleges are abandoning standardized testing | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Oct 10, 2016 | Colleges Need to Use Predictive Data to Enhance—Not Hinder—Diversity | Like most values, diversity does not come cheap. In an era of increasingly competitive college admissions, constrained resources, and the usual uncertainty about where students of all types will enroll, figuring out how and who to attract c... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Edmission web app helps you plan for college admissions | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Getting into the right college isn’t easy. Edmission wants to help. The San Ramon, California-based startup is launching a web app toda... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Edmission web app helps you plan for college admissions | Getting into the right college isn’t easy. Edmission wants to help. The San Ramon, California-based startup is launching a web app today that lets students and parents create a personalized college admission plan — without the fees of priva... |
| Sep 6, 2014 | College Admissions Is Broken. Here's How To Fix It | Do you remember how difficult was to apply to college? I do. In the summer of 1998, I was a rising senior at a large public high school in rural Northern California.
My prospects seemed bright. I ranked in the top 10 of my 650-person class.... |
| Feb 28, 2014 | Your SAT Scores Will Come Back to Haunt You | You don’t want to relive the high-school stress of taking the SATs, but if you’re a job-seeker, you might have no other choice. With a labor market that remains a “buyer’s market,” more employers are making applicants provide SAT or ACT sco... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | The problem with testing students and doctors is what gets truncated | In a 70-page study of more than 123,000 young humans who attended 33 colleges or universities, researchers discovered that academic performance turned more on high school grades than ACT/SAT scores. (Here is NPR’s take.)
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| The problem with testing students and doctors is what gets truncated | For me, maybe you too, the best part about science is how it disrupts the status quo. A belief, a way of doing something, a paradigm if you will, becomes entrenched. Humans love patterns. We get attached. I call this the way-it’s-always-bee... |
| ‘This is make or break’ — students are still waiting on financial aid days ahead of National College Decision Day | In ordinary years, students have several weeks to compare financial aid offers ahead of National College Decision Day on May 1, the deadline to decide on a college.
Amid this year’s FAFSA delays, many colleges and universities have changed ... |
| Getting in to college just got harder. Here’s what to do if you are waitlisted | In an application cycle unlike any other, more students were rejected or waitlisted at their top-choice schools.
Now students are left with fewer options and only a short time to figure out their next move ahead of National College Decision... |
| Why some families will pay $500,000 for Ivy League admissions consulting: ‘It’s worth the investment’ | To get a leg up in the competitive world of college admissions, there’s almost no limit to what some families will spend on private consultants for their children.
At Command Education in New York, for example, families pay $120,000 a year ... |