
More waitlists, less certainty: What to expect from 2021 college admission decisions
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“Colleges will be test optional again this year, so I don’t have to worry about tests, right?”
In our practice, we are asked a variation on this question frequently, and the answer is complicated. First, some background: virtually every college and university in the USA, as well as many international institutions, offered test-optional policies for the 2020-2021 application year due to Covid-related test cancellations. For the 2021-2022 application, most colleges continued…
Covid-19 turned the college application season upside down for current high school seniors. Tests were cancelled, student motivation was down, applications per student are up, and overall it may be a year where fewer students apply to college. The numbers of early applications to selective schools that admit less than 20 percent skyrocketed resulting in lower admission rates than the already minuscule rates of year’s past.
This chart shows the percent increase in early …