#College Admissions Process

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8 Essential College Preparation Tips for High School Students in India

The transition from high school to college is a major milestone in a student’s life. It’s an exciting time to explore new opportunities and pursue your passions. But it can also be a daunting task, especially in India, where the college admissions process is highly competitive.

College preparation for high school students in India: 8 essential tips to help you ace your entrance exams, get admitted to your dream college, and save money on tuition

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Finding The Love Beyond The Rankings

A college list that works has little to do with any list you can find online

Families with high school students know better than most that the recent news in college admissions features quite a lot of headlines about the highest numbers of applications and the lowest acceptance rates “ever.” While these may be the facts, we encourage parents and students everywhere to step away from the ranking lists and take a different approach to building college lists.

Read on for our key advice for where to look instead–

What’s really behind increased application numbers and ever shrinking acceptance rates?

Colleges benefit from increased applicant numbers because they drive the perception of prestige, exclusivity and excellence, and higher rankings. With college rankings and our public perceptions about what makes a college highly desirable tied to low acceptance rates, colleges are in a race to depress those numbers. The more applications a college receives, the lower that acceptance rate will plummet. The lower the acceptance rate, the higher the college moves on ranking lists that prioritize this factor, and the greater the college benefits from an air of prestige and exclusivity.

You’ll note that this ranking is devoid of a discussion of quality of education received, life and career experiences of students, dedication of faculty, or any other meaningful measures of the value of a student’s time on the campus. Furthermore, the businesses that publish these rankings have their own interests and financial gains to protect in preserving the perceived importance of the ranking lists they produce. These are among the many reasons we are skeptical of building college lists that factor the ‘ranking’ of the college as a key factor.

If not ranking lists, how do we assess a good college for a student’s list?

We believe strongly that a college list should be a personal and personalized endeavor. Rather than looking to the rankings to tell you what belongs on your list, look inward.

The happiest, thriving students who succeed academically and build strong communities on campus are those who have thought deeply, with the support of trusted adults, to identify the factors that are most important to their own experience.

Identify the academic experiences, opportunities, and ways of learning that will set you up to enjoy your education to move towards your goals. Look for these within your majors or departments of interest, in internship, research, and mentoring opportunities on campus, and in the course experiences and academic supports and enrichments available to you.

Don’t forget about the aspects of college life that will help you to find and build your community and put down roots in the place you will call home for four years:What do you need in the housing, the campus culture and student life? How about student clubs, organizations, and activities that will support and challenge you and give you outlets to pursue your interests and passions and bring joy to your days?

Once you’ve identified these factors, seek out colleges that match this vision. Not every school on your list is likely to be a 100% match – often there will be compromises in size, location, or some of the other factors on your personalized list– but knowing what you want sets you up to assess if those compromises are worthwhile. A balanced college list should have a mix of schools at each admissibility level that resonate with your academic and community factors.

No ranking list can tell you if you will be happy, thriving, or successful on a campus; only you can do that.

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[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

Something I don’t see many people talking about is how that scene in the school’s councilor's office with Miles and his parents like. Fully demonstrates how shallow and infuriating the college admissions process in America is. Like yes you need to start preparing at 15 to even have a shot at top colleges, yes you need to have a ‘story’ as a teenager, yes if you come from a certain background you’re assumed to have struggled. Yes, use your trauma and issues and rebrand it all nice and neat but make sure it doesn’t seem like it actually affected you badly or you’ll be seen as a liability. Package yourself and whittle yourself into nothing but a shiny statue who’s never failed at all in one of the most confusing periods of your life. Market yourself. Sell yourself. You are a product, not a person.

[brothersonahotelbed]

what the y don't tell you about enrolling in college is that the college actually hates your guts so bad and they want to make you jump through approximately 170000 hoops in order to attend school there and you actually end up doing more work trying to sort everything out with admissions than you actually do ATTENDING CLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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If I ever meet the CEO of College Board it's on sight

[kimblestudies]

COLLEGE DECIDED

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[thebreakfastgenie]

Columbia admitted 2,355 students to the class of 2025. This represents 3.9% of the 60,551 applicants. Highly selective schools already depend heavily on more subjective application criteria, because there are many more applicants who do well on the supposedly objective measures than they can admit.

[ruralcat]

interview went well they were excited to see me which was cool and since ive interviewed with them before it was chill. have to wait two weeks to get results which is crazy but ⛹️‍♀️ we ball

[glutaminase]

Trying to write yellowjackets fic is so embarrassing i have to google like "when are college applications due" at the big age of 25 and then I sit and reconsider my life for a moment

[tacticalgrandma]

Having epiphanies about really positive things about your friends & family is the nicest feeling

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Planning for Success in the Transition to College

April is the month where the final anxiously awaited college decisions roll in. Sometimes, students & families have spent so much time preparing for the admissions process, that what happens next has yet to come into focus.

Read on for our must know tips on finalizing your college decision & preparing for a successful college transition + a FREE webinar opportunity to join us live to take the guesswork out of this transition season–

1.Think through your decision with yourself and the adults who know you best.

At the end of the day, it can be easy for students to lose sight of the ultimate goal: preparing for life and learning in a college community where you will thrive in the next chapter of your life. Putting aside all the admissions results that can feel like wins and losses, now is the time to think about what really matters for you in the college you will call home. Not the ranking, name, or prestige, but what matters to you. As students hone in on those final choices, take the opportunity to visit in person, or engage virtual opportunities to connect with the colleges where you’ve been admitted. Talk it over with your family, and trusted advisors, and try to get out of the comparison game with friends and peers. Do compare financial aid or scholarship awards and make sure the finances work for your family, think through the academic options, housing options, and travel to your campus. If you ground in what’s important to you, you’ll make a great choice.

2.Deposit to ONE college by May 1st.

The national deadline for college deposits is May 1st. You must deposit by this date to secure your enrollment spot according to the steps the college communicates to you. For some colleges, this will include separate deposits for enrollment and housing. Note that while it is unethical for colleges to require enrollment deposits sooner than May 1st, some universities, especially large public institutions, fill their housing or honors programs on a rolling basis and space can be limited. Read all the fine print, and call the admissions office to clarify if needed. Note that all colleges in the US share a common database to track enrollment. Depositing to more than one institution is unethical, is easily discoverable by colleges, and can result in acceptances being revoked. It is critical that students and families make deposits to just one college or university.

And a note on waitlists: Waitlists are highly unpredictable. If you are accepting a spot on a waitlist, you will still need to make a deposit to another college where you have been admitted by May 1st. Plan to move forward with all of your enrollment steps there, and if you are offered a waitlist spot, understand that you will forfeit your deposit to the original college if you decide to withdraw and move forward with accepting the new offer at the waitlist college.

3.Plan for a smooth transition.

After all the time, effort, and planning that has gone into the admissions process, now is the time to turn your focus to setting yourself up for success in college. While there are classes to register for and plenty of items to buy for your dorm room, giving some attention to how a student will independently manage their schedule, coursework assignments, and daily responsibilities of college life, can make all the difference. Once the graduation celebrations are over, taking time this summer to intentionally think through the habits, routines and structures that will set a student up for success can launch young people into college life more confident, more prepared, and more ready to thrive.

We’ve teamed up with our friends at Untapped Learning who specialize in supporting students to develop exactly these skills. Learn more about their in-person or virtual Summer Boot Camp here and be sure to join us for a free public webinar on Tuesday April 4th to dive into planning for a smooth transition to college life. Join us, and spread the word; all are welcome!

Seniors, What’s Next?:

Finalizing your College Decision & Planning for Success in the Transition to College

Free Public Webinar presented by

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Tuesday April 4th 6 p.m. MT | 8 p.m. ET

Join us by registering here.

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[intobarbarians]

even though asian americans as a whole are overrepresented relative to population size at some elite universities, that privilege isn’t equal to all asian ethnicities. a lot of asian people need affirmative action, they need those diversity efforts, and they need it done in a way that addresses the disparities in our communities without harming other communities of color.

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GUESS WHO IS GOING TO COLLEGE FOR FOUR YEARS COMPLETELY FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[bberry005]

the new pjo book really be like Percy Jackson and the Horrors of the College Admissions Process and i respect that greatly

[parseisflat]

i use too many semi-colons