A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on the “Race to Nowhere“, a documentary that highlights the pressures students are facing during the college application process. Earlier this week, NPR posted an interesting story on schools that are making drastic changes in order to fight the college application frenzy.
The article talks about how Beaver Country Day, a private school in Massachusetts, has eliminated their AP courses. Of course some parents are all for this type of drastic change, while others fear that it will put their children at a severe disadvantage. It does raise the question, how do colleges evaluate transcripts? How are students reviewed who do not have access to AP courses? Check back with us on Monday, January 10th for more details.
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Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.
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Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.