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College Applications, Clemson, and Early Deadlines.

Clemson is often the more selective university in South Carolina except for the University of South Carolina-Columbia’s Honors program. The latter has a full honors curriculum separate from all other offerings, whereas Clemson’s program simply adds an honors class for enrichment purposes each year.

Clemson’s applications shot through the roof last year, for academic year starting Fall 2021 ending in spring of 2022. They received 47,000 more applications than in the previous year. They enrolled their largest class ever, with 4,250 students. One reason may be that Clemson signed on with the Common Application in 2021-22, […]

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SATs/ACTs and Scholarships

The headlines among the college counseling community is that most colleges have gone test optional, which means they will not be requiring standardized tests scores such as the SATs or ACTs for admission. Many students cast a sigh of relief! Few students enjoy these high-stakes tests. Starting in March 2020, the College Board and ETS cancelled the testing dates and closed testing sites due to the fear of spreading the Covid-19 virus. Students are fearful of sitting for the three-and-one-half hours in a potentially crowded, unventilated room to take these tests. As a result, many colleges have gone test optional […]

SATs/ACTs and Scholarships

Pandemic Impact: SAT/ACT And Your High School Senior

As students across the country look ahead to the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, they will need to focus on their health and safety first, academics second. If they remain healthy they will benefit also their family members, teachers, friends, school employees and the world at large.

In these unprecedented times, people in general, not just students, are anxious about their health, along with issues of social unrest, financial insecurities, and politics. High school students typically worry about everything college, and especially those dreaded SAT/ACTs standardized tests. No student takes those just for fun, unless, they can retrieve, process, and […]

Pandemic Impact: SAT/ACT And Your High School Senior

The New SAT: What did we do to deserve this?

The new SAT will soon become the standard bearer for the College Board’s standardized test. It faced an enormous amount of criticism when it first surfaced in sample form last year and the CB spokespeople had a difficult time explaining their reasoning and why the drastic change was being implemented.

A couple of answers to this appeared to make a lot of sense: the old SAT had some biases, it was not based on current educational standards and higher predictive outcomes were seen as favoring the “haves” while disenfranchising the “have nots”. While the specific changes are now clearly evident, as many […]

The New SAT: What did we do to deserve this?