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The College Board and Your Data
The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.
From the blog:
Last month, the second day of tours for our intrepid group of educational consultants found us still in the Carolinas (though by now we were in South Carolina) and dawned a bit chilly and slightly gray. Still, no dreary fall weather could dampen our enthusiasm for visiting great campuses and, by the time we were halfway through our time visiting Furman University, the sun had broken through in more ways than one. Read More
"The obsession in this country with college admissions is very real, and the pressure to “get in” is overwhelming. Students run themselves ragged chasing test scores, taking AP courses, dominating at sports, participating in student organizations, getting straight As – whatever it takes to prove their “worth.” Meanwhile, parents compound the anxiety by voicing strong opinions, pushing their child toward certain schools or even taking more drastic actions (hello, college admissions scandal)."
"If you took the SAT at some point in your life, there's a good chance you also gave the test makers the right to license out your information. For just 47 cents, colleges can get your approximate test score, name, ethnicity, and family college history."
"In the 1990s, while the rest of society was busy squirting each other with Super Soakers, listening to the Gin Blossoms, and carving Nike swooshes into their hair, colleges suddenly realized, for the very first time, that their campuses were completely deserted during the summer. That’s when an administrator at a prestigious university had a revolutionary notion – “What if we filled up our dorms with high school students whose parents are caught up in the admissions hysteria and charged triple our normal tuition rate for the privilege?” Hence, the college summer program for high school sophomores and juniors was born."
