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College Possible is a 501(c)3 organization that has received a four-star rating from Charity Navigator for financial management and a three-star rating for accountability and transparency. [11] A 2011 Harvard study determined that Admission Possible more than doubles the chances a low-income student will enroll in a four-year institution. [12]
Colleges value ingenuity and a commitment to help others, making a “passion project” particularly beneficial to students engaged in an increasingly competitive college admissions process.
A report in The New York Times in 2016 suggested that some universities were considering changing their admissions guidelines to be more inclusive of less affluent applicants, to put less emphasis on standardized test and AP scores, and to put more emphasis on determining "which students' community-service projects are heartfelt and which are ...
The community and technical colleges become Center members by paying to participate in one or more of the Center's national survey research projects. There are 1,173 community and technical colleges in the United States. [5] The Center's membership includes more than 730 community and technical colleges from 49 states, as well as a few colleges ...
A development case is an application to an undergraduate institution that is set aside during the admission process for further review. In these cases, the merits of admitting a student based on their academic performance, test scores, and extracurricular activities are lowered by the donations of the applicant's family.
The best community college in the U.S. is located in Wisconsin. Gateway Technical College in Kenosha, WI, claimed the top spot out of 616 schools included in this study. It has a full-time ...
The Coalition for College, [1] formerly the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success (CAAS), is an American nonprofit organization that runs the Coalition Application, a U.S. college application platform. It was founded in 2015, and says it aims to provide a holistic application that assists disadvantaged students.
Early entrance to college, sometimes called early admission or early enrollment, is the practice of allowing students to be accelerated into college, one or more years before the traditional age of college entrance, and without obtaining a high school diploma. In some cases this is done individually.