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Common App and a fast-growing list of states are now admitting students before they've filled out an application. Here's what that actually changes about the work an IEC gets paid for this fall.
Two students can arrive at August with the same list and the same essay quality. Six weeks later, one is on track and one has quietly come apart, and it has nothing to do with strategy.
ACT had two major testing failures. Then ETS bought it.
It's called professional judgment, the decision sits with the school's financial aid office, and by statute, there's no appeal to the Department of Education once that office rules.
On August 3, Washington asked every school to publicly explain its admissions process by December 31. What a school does next is the clearest signal yet of how much scrutiny it's under this cycle.
The rollover mechanics, the list size math, the tracking system for a caseload you can't officially see into, and the checklist to close out before Labor Day
The tool colleges used to spot disadvantage without touching race is gone. One school has already said what replaced it, and its applications open today.
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Recommendation letters have an AI blind spot nobody's named yet, plus a full prompt library for your practice and your clients.
International enrollment declined sharply this year, and at hundreds of tuition-dependent colleges, the money that quietly funded domestic aid budgets and academic programs went with it.
