What Does Test-Optional Really Mean?
Recently, the University of Chicago announced that their admissions process was now “test-optional”, as reported in USA Today (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/14/university-chicago-sat-act-optional/701153002/) last year. This announcement has led many parents, students, and educators to ask us here at Livius questions about what test-optional means and how it might affect the application process of students whether they are […]
Understanding Early Action and Early Decision
Over the last few decades, both the raw number of high school graduates applying to college and the percentage of high school graduates applying to college has increased dramatically. One of the results of this trend has been that many colleges and universities have become more and more selective. One extreme example of this is […]