May 1st has come and gone and many high school students are still waiting to find out where they will end up in the fall. With colleges increasing the number of students on their waiting list, it may take a while before all of the deposits are counted and students receive official word on their waiting list status.
Last week, NPR published a story on the waiting list saga. It states that there are 10,000 students on waiting lists for the University of California system alone. Some professionals are calling the huge numbers “inhumane” while colleges are saying it is “necessary”.
It seems that the waiting list trend is not going to change anytime soon, so students should be prepared to potentially have to work on their college admissions process well into the summer after graduation. This harsh reality is just one of the recent changes in the college admissions game.
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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.