How truly important are your essays?

OTTO_thefriendlypony
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 05:37:14 +0000

Each admitted student applies with unique application materials that will cause variance in the weight of items in a Common Data Set. Affirmative action is a law impacting admission decisions and a perfect example of how a higher education institution can choose to admit applicants uninfluenced by their CDS. In other words, CDS information do not regulate admission decisions. Everyone feel free to Wikipedia this if you want, CDS are mainly prepared for publishing companies such as College Board, Peterson’s, U.S. News and World Report. Section C7 - “Relative Importance of Common Academic and Non-Academic Admission Criteria”, key word “relative” or not absolute. A student that is admitted will have a better understanding of what helped their application over someone regurgitating CDS information.