Many universities do not evaluate or admit freshman applicants by major, but some directly admit by major and others consider major in the application process.…
NOTE: This article discusses news from March 2022. The contents may now be out of date, so please do not take this discussion as the…
This post by Ava Slocum was originally published on April 3, 2021. Now that we’ve reached the beginning of April, most high school seniors will…
The University of California (UC) announced in the fall that it has permanently dropped the SAT and ACT as admissions requirements, and will not replace them…
Featured: Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley (23 September 2021). Image by Matthew Enger Starting in 2020, many colleges and universities that previously required SAT or ACT…
Featured: Bruce Beasley’s “Rondo II” Sculpture in front of Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley (23 September 2021). Image by Matthew Enger Capstone is wrapping…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego) in 2011, taken from the Birch Aquarium. By Invertzoo on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 Int’l. We thought…
Featured Image: CU Boulder from the air. Courtesy of CU Boulder. CC0 1.0 UPD. For a school year as tumultuous and unpredictable as this one,…
April is finally here; the waiting game is over. You know what your options are and now must make a decision. For those of you…
Now that we’ve reached the beginning of April, most high school seniors will soon receive the last of their decisions from colleges. For many people,…