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Immigration questions on college applications were causing students to panic. So Common App is changing. Chris Quintana, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT Applying for college can be one of the most stressful parts of a high schooler’s life. It entails hours of document wrangling, rewriting the same personal essay over and over and prepping for high-stakes tests. For many immigrant students like Shavanah Ali, a college application can also feel like a risk to their personal sa...

Originally published on December 17, 2020 7:22 am This is not the year for the college road trip. Instead, it’s been all about clicking through virtual campus tours. Parker Kopplin is a senior at Ritenour High School in St. Louis County, and that’s where he was when he explored the campus of UCLA. “It just doesnt feel like a real experience,” Kopplin said. “It kind of just seems like youre reading and talking to a brochure.” Kopplin instead has listed Mizzou, a school he was abl...

COVID-19 crisis has high school seniors flummoxed by uncertainty for their future Hartford High senior Deondra Goodspeed has applied to 11 nursing schools and has received an acceptance from her top choice. She said that the pandemic has strengthened her resolve to become a nurse. Goodspeed moved in March to Bradford, Vt., where she was photographed on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, but decided to finish high school remotely at Hartford rather than change schools so close to graduating. (Valley News...

Is standardized testing dead? Or, to paraphrase Mark Twain, are the reports “greatly exaggerated”? In March 2020, about 1,000 of the 2,300 private nonprofit and public bachelors-granting colleges and universities offered students the option to apply to their institutions without submitting SAT or ACT scores, and several dozen operated as “test blind,” wherein all applicants were reviewed without testing results. According to FairTest, nearly 1,700, or two-thirds of colleges and universi...