College Admissions

Though the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement, many other elite colleges have stayed the course. CalTech recently announced a list of acceptable substitutes for its requirement of one-year’s academic course in calculus, chemistry and physics for first-year applicants: If a student is unable to take a calculus, chemistry, …

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FITREE LEARNING students were admitted into top US colleges, including: Harvard, MIT, Brown, Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, USC, Georgia Tech, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UT Austin.  CONGRATS 2022-23 FITREE LEARNING STUDENTS! FITREE LEARNING students will be attending top colleges like Harvard in Fall 2023 after having benefited from expert guidance in producing …

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In March 2023, Columbia became the first Ivy League college to become Test-Optional without an attached end-date for all undergraduate applicants. In announcing its indefinite Test-Optional policy, Columbia cited its consideration of “varied backgrounds, voices and experiences in order to best determine an applicant’s suitability for admission”. Columbia thus becomes the first Ivy League college …

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As competition to get into elite colleges such as MIT and Harvard becomes stiffer year after year, the most successful students strategically plan their Extracurricular Activities starting early in their high school years.  Learn how elite colleges judge Extracurricular Activities.  Six Key Factors in Extracurricular Activities #1 Selectivity More selective activities are more impressive than less selective ones: …

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Interviews are more important than ever in college admissions.  Learn insights into how to master the college interview process from FITree Learning. What Top Colleges Look For In Interviews With test optional policies adopted by the Ivy League and a majority of colleges (Harvard will remain test optional through the Class of 2030), interviews are …

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