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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

Strategic Enrollment Management’s Effect on Students and Parents

Many parents and students don’t know that colleges employ specific strategies to recruit students. They may wonder “Why did I get this amount of financial aid?” or, “Why did one college give a larger scholarship than another?”

There’s a little-known strategy that plays a major role in the amount of scholarship and financial aid that colleges award to families. It’s called “Strategic Enrollment Management” or SEM. This is a powerful tool that colleges use to recruit students. It involves regression analysis to predict enrollment results. It’s like running an experiment and assigning a value to an independent variable and watching the […]

Strategic Enrollment Management’s Effect on Students and Parents

What First Year College Students Can Expect

Is it possible to be both excited and worried at the same time? The pandemic is not dampening the enthusiasm of first year college students, many of whom are chomping at the bit to set foot on campus. At the College of Charleston classes have already started online. Students can continue to learn remotely or move into the dorm rooms as soon as the campus officially opens, sometime after Labor Day.

Colleges have been delaying opening the physical campus for good reasons: Covid-19 is spreading. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that The University of North Carolina-State, shut down housing just […]

What First Year College Students Can Expect

College Admissions during COVID pandemic

Colleges have been delaying opening the physical campus for good reasons: Covid-19 is spreading. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that The University of North Carolina-State, shut down housing just after a few weeks, and the list of colleges postponing plans for reopening grows. Students and parents can only keep watch for updates with bated breath. In this era of uncertainty, they must become comfortable with the unknown.

Parents are asking if they will receive some refunds on the room and board moneys when students are sent back home. Some colleges are pro-rating the portion toward the following semester. College administrators […]

College Admissions during COVID pandemic

Understanding The College Paradigm Shift

The quintessential experience of starting college, living on campus, and making new friends is going to be a bit different this fall. That rich social life so typical of collegiate environments may become memories that will “light the corners of the mind,” as Barbra Streisand sang in the ’70s. Those of us who went to college then will remember how mono was dubbed “the kissing disease.” But none of us had to worry about a deadly virus that can spread to others long before the carrier is aware of being infected.

Colleges are built upon a communal foundation, where students live […]

Understanding The College Paradigm Shift