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Columbia acceptance rate drops to record low 3.7 percent after 51 percent spike in applications Columbia acceptance rate drops to record low 3.7 percent after 51 percent spike in applications Samantha Camacho / Staff Photographer By Irie Sentner | April 6, 2021, 8:32 PM Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science released offers of admission to 2,218 students on Tuesday, causing the acceptance rate to plummet to a record-low 3.66 percent. Admitted students come from a...

While Colby has been open to students this academic year, it has barred all visitors, meaning that admissions had to do all of its recruiting remotely. Proto said he found that the college was able to make more "visits" to high schools because they were virtual visits. A key for Colby has been a financial aid program that expects no parental contribution for families with incomes of up to $65,000. "Youve got to have a robust commitment to aid," Proto said. Now the key is to get students to enro...

KXLY April 5, 2021 6:14 AM Brianna McGurran - Forbes Advisor Posted: Updated: Nothing about this school year has been normal for college students. Amid cautious campus reopenings, setbacks have arisen. In recent weeks, a college hockey game in Utica, New York, ended mid-period due to a player’s positive Covid-19 test; the University of California, Davis, offered students $75 grants to opt out of spring break travel; and the University of Delaware reported a record number of cases on...

Published: 3:45 PM EDT March 31, 2021 Updated: 5:06 PM EDT March 31, 2021 The number of applications submitted to U.S. colleges and universities surged this year compared to last.  Because of the pandemic, many schools gave students more time to apply and even made it optional whether to submit the ACT and SAT.  But will that change who gets in?  "The ACT was canceled 3x and I was relocated out of state 3 hours away from my house,” said Tessa Ransom, High Sc...

Mohamed Sadek for TIME Twyla Joseph in Islip Terrace, N.Y., on Feb. 5, as her day begins The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged. Joseph never got to take the admissions test. She barely knows her high school teachers now that she takes all her c...

College Admission Season Is Crazier Than Ever. That Could Change Who Gets In. © Sylvia Jarrus for The Wall Street Journal Ivy League schools and a host of other highly selective institutions waived SAT and ACT requirements for the class of 2025, resulting in an unprecedented flood of applications and what may prove the most chaotic selection experiment in American higher education since the end of World War II. The question hanging over higher education this month is whether this influx will ...

Opinion: Change on applications would open education to those who need it most Elizabeth Cordova FacebookTwitterEmail The Capitol building in HartfordChristian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media “So pervasive is the racial inequality in the criminal justice system, it is impossible for the inquiry and usage of criminal justice information in college applications to be a race-neutral practice.” So states a joint report between the Justice Impact Movement and Yale College Council. People with...

News | Student Life Over 60,000 students applied to Columbia this year. Will the 51 percent spike decrease the achievement gap? Over 60,000 students applied to Columbia this year. Will the 51 percent spike decrease the achievement gap? Princeton Huang / Staff Photographer By Irie Sentner | March 12, 2021, 7:24 AM Every year in late March, all eight Ivy League universities simultaneously release undergraduate admissions decisions to tens of thousands of eagerly waiting high school seniors....

This is the March 11, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When people talk about “energy companies,” they’re typically referring to the world’s oil and gas giants: Shell. Exxon Mobil. BP. But as solar and wind power increasingly outcompete fossil fuels in the marketplace, renewable energy companies are flexing their newfound political and economic muscle. T...

In fall of 2020, U.S. colleges and universities saw a 13% drop in freshman enrollment, likely due to the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now,