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KNIGHTtime News GUIDING YOUR COLLEGE PROCESS
THE NEWS BULLETIN
Articles We are Reading
 Natalie Ford
THE IGEN SHIFT:
COLLEGES ARE CHANGING
TO REACH THE NEXT GENERATION The newest students are transforming the way schools serve and educate them, including sending presidents and deans to Instagram and Twitter.
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT THE LATEST
SAT CONTROVERSY
A helpful Q&A the tackles the rumors surrounding the August 2018 SAT administration date.
Lisa Giarratano
THE THREE T’S
Rick Clark, Dean of Admission at Georgia Tech, discusses the Three T’s necessary to ensure a successful and calm application season: Time, Talk, and Trust.
PROFESSOR ON WHY SHE SUPPORTS HARVARD ADMISSIONS PRACTICES Colorado State University professor OiYan Poon tells NPR’s Melissa Block why she supports the admission practices Asian-American students are suing Harvard University over.
Bea Hodavdekar
ETHICAL COLLEGE ADMISSIONS: STUDENT PASSIONS AND
COLLEGE CHOICES
This article discusses recent research on the notion of why/how students  nd or develop passions and how this could impact the ways in which admission o cers and college counselors, alike, provide advice.
THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT COLLEGE-ADMISSIONS
CRITERIA NOW MEAN LESS
When the majority of applicants have near perfect GPAs and test scores, how do colleges decide who will be admitted? Read on to  nd out how deans at college and universities think through this issue.
Matt Mettille
THE BEST FRESHMAN YEAR
IS A GAP YEAR
As the article states, “An increasing number of students are questioning whether they are ready to dive straight into four more years of classroom lectures, research papers, and cramming for exams.”This article talks about what colleges are doing to encourage more students to pump the breaks in between high school and college.
HOW TO GET THE
MOST OUT OF COLLEGE
Frank Bruni explains that what
a student does once they get to college matters much more than where they go and he encourages students to be opened minded in this New York Times article, “Many students, nervous about a new environment, follow friends from high school or people whose demographic backgrounds match their own into homogeneous cocoons. That can indeed provide solace and support.
But it’s also a wasted opportunity— educationally, morally, strategically. Diversity opens you to an array and wealth of ideas, and being comfortable with it is an asset in just about any workplace or career.”
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