How College Admissions Have Changed During Covid
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Harvard admitted 3.4% of its undergraduate applicants this year. Yale, 4.6%. Columbia just 3.7%. Last night at 7 p.m. on the east coast, the eight colleges that make up the Ivy League let applicants know whether they were accepted or rejected.
After the pandemic forced most schools to adopt test-optional admission policies, applications soared at the nation’s most selective schools. Some 57,435 students applied to Harvard, an increase of 43% over the previous year. Harvard admitted 1,968, including those who applied early. Columbia received 60,551 applicants, a 51% surge, and admitted 2,218.
In their admissions announcements, schools touted the increased number of nonwhite students they had accepted and the number qualified to receive government Pell grants, awarded to students from low-income families.
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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 classes online at home in Islip Terrace, N.Y. She missed out on seasons of varsity cross-country and track, and lost contact with the coach who “used to give us really good life advice.” During the five months she was furloughed from her job at Panera Bread, she spent the money she’d been saving for college. And while she’s back at work now for about 28 hours per week, often dealing with customers who refuse to wear face masks, she is worried not only about whether she will be able to
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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 permanently change how colleges select students and, ultimately, the makeup of the student population.
Interviews with college-admissions officials and public and private high school counselors point to an epic effort behind the scenes to make tough judgment calls at the highest speed. Colleges send out the bulk of their decision notices in March and early April, but it won’t be widely known how the incoming freshman classes will look until late summer or early fall. Added to the uncertai