Testing the waters

Staff Editorial

September 24, 2020

With the pause on standardized testing due to COVID-19 magnifying the role of the SAT and ACT in college admissions, universities should consider the realities of financial inequality when deciding whether or not to keep the requirement.  The original version of the SAT debuted in 1926, 26 years after ...

Seniors attend college workshop

Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor

August 17, 2019

WEB EXCLUSIVE All seniors met with college admissions representatives to work on their Common Application Essay and get a head start on any other supplements required in the college application process. “It was very helpful to have these representatives because we got to learn about the admissi...

College counseling elective begins for juniors

Liana Lum, Editor-in-Chief

January 6, 2015

Juniors gathered in the Mother Williams Library with their ipads this morning for their first college counseling elective. “As juniors, it’s time to think about where you want to go and what’s next,” College Counseling Director Rebecca Munda said during the elective. “We’ll be using this as a...

Admissions based on luck, not skill

April 8, 2011

Zoe Newcomb Editor-in-Chief The college application process is without a doubt the most utterly ridiculous thing I have ever participated in. So I was horrified, like many of my peers, when I heard National Public Radio’s (NPR) “Behind-the-Scenes” story that included audio from an admissions committee at ...

Acceptance letters come; College ‘Confidential’ goes

April 3, 2009

Lauren Jung Editor-in-Chief Now that college decisions are out, I have a confession to make. I am a College Confidential junkie. I don’t even have an account on the Web site, but for the past four months, I’ve read countless threads on the forums, slurping up the latest speculation on college ...