Writing on how admissions actually evaluates students, and what is changing in the formats families are preparing for.
Three trackers publish three different numbers, and none of them answers the question a family is actually asking. What decides it is the schools on your list and the year your child would start.
ReadOn 7 August a federal judge refused to throw out an antitrust case against thirty-two colleges over binding early decision. At that stage a court has to treat the complaint's factual allegations as true, which is a different thing from finding them true. Meanwhile the agreement form itself carries a clause worth reading before November.
ReadFour universities have gone back to requiring the SAT or ACT, landing on three different entry years three years apart. The only question a family can act on is which of their children it applies to.
ReadA run of universities stopped using AI writing detection between 2023 and 2026. The formats replacing it ask something different of a seventeen year old, and reward a different kind of student.
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