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From “millions of scholarship dollars go unclaimed” to “it’s too much work,” misconceptions about college scholarships need debunking.
“A full ride.” These are magic words to anyone beating the bushes for scholarship money. But students who get an all-expenses-paid college experience are rare. Let’s move on to a more realistic view of scholarships.
Your application essay is not about grades, scores, or achievements—it’s about you. It introduces you as an individual and shows that you can write and think coherently.
Colleges want curious and articulate people who are ready to enter college. Your essay can show them you are that person.
The first schools that many students learn about are famous, highly selective colleges like Yale and Harvard. About 50-60 U.S. colleges are considered “highly selective.” They have admission rates of 33 percent or less. For some, admission rates are in the single digits.
So what does it take to get in?
Colleges typically consider grades in tough courses to be the most important criteria that they will use in the admissions process. Bear in mind, however, that individual colleges vary in the weight they give other factors.
What are the other top factors that colleges consider?
Upcoming changes to the SAT, scheduled to debut in March 2016, are affecting advice independent educational consultants (IECs) give their students about which college entrance exams to take—the “old” SAT, the “redesigned” SAT, or the ACT, according to a survey conducted last weekend of 273 educational consultants.