MYTH #8: Students should always take the hardest classes offered by their high schools
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #7: Applying Via An Early Decision Plan Eliminates Choice
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #6: With top grades and test scores, students can get into any college of their choosing
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #5: Test-optional policies eliminate the need to take standardized tests
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #4: High school classmates are competing for the “same spots” in the college admissions process
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #3: The personal statement is magnum opus
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #2: Students with the highest grades and test scores are the most “qualified”
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
MYTH #1: The “best” school is the one with the lowest admit rate or the highest rankings
Debunking Common College Admissions Myths
Paying For College: The Basics of College Costs
Paying for College: The Basics of College Costs The cost of higher education has become an even hotter topic in recent years. News outlets feverishly cover the political jockeying around student-loan forgiveness and provide an avalanche of college cost-benefit analysis statistics. In 2024, a New York Times article reported that annual college costs were on […]
The Role of Standardized Tests
Anyone who lives or works with teenagers understands their unique capacity for selective listening. So, it’s no surprise that, when high schoolers hear that they do not have to submit ACT or SAT scores as part of their applications to the majority of U.S. colleges, they often take this to mean that these tests no longer matter in the admissions process. This is actually the reality at “test-free” colleges, most prominently the California State University and University of California systems, which abandoned all consideration of the ACT and SAT in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
