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Why Your College Essay May Be More Important Than Your Test Scores

Posted by Neal Schwartz on May 30, 2021

As we all know, the college application can be a long and complicated endeavor. We can think of the college application as a portfolio of student performance across a wide variety of metrics that allows admissions officers to judge the quality and potential of the students they’ll accept. The most important elements have long been known to be GPA, test scores, recommendations and last but not least, the college essay.

However, we’ve been seeing a noteworthy shift away from the quantitative towards more abstract ways of evaluating a student.

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Topics: College Applications, college preparation, college admissions, SAT/ACT, college counseling, test optional, highly selective colleges, standardized college entrance testing, soft factors in college admission, summer student college application course, college essay, holistic college admissions review

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