Guide/07 Building Your College Strategy
What Each College Says Matters
How 97 colleges rate 18 admissions factors in their own Common Data Sets, from essays and recommendations to demonstrated interest, legacy, and interviews. Look up any school or compare one factor across all of them.
Every year, most colleges publish a Common Data Set, and one section of it asks the college to rate how much 18 factors matter in admissions: grades, rigor, test scores, essays, recommendations, interviews, activities, character, legacy, demonstrated interest, and more.
This chapter collects those ratings for 97 colleges, read directly from each school's own document. You can look up any school, or pick one factor (like demonstrated interest) and see which schools weigh it...
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What’s in this chapter
- 1How to read the ratings
- 2What the ratings show
- 3How to use this
- 4About the data