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Where Should You Apply?: Some Cautions About Data
With growing numbers of college applicants and the explosion of test preparation services, GPA and test scores at...
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Why Has College Admissions Become So Competitive? :The Rankings Game
The article doesn’t try to dissuade you if prestige is important to you in selecting a college—you have lots of...
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The Big Tests: Is the SAT Coachable?
For most of its existence as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the test was promoted as a test of a student’s supposedly...
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How Colleges and Students Differ: Liberal Arts Colleges & Research Universities
Institutional mission—the goals a college sets for itself—is key to understanding how colleges differ. An important...
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How Do Colleges Make Their Decisions? : The Admissions Staff
For most students and their parents, the college admissions process is shrouded in mystery. Hundreds of thousands of...
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