For undergraduate and master students, most interested international students do not intend to give up studying abroad, but choose to postpone their study abroad plans or change their study destinations. It is understood that in order to improve the success rate of studying abroad, many China students have started a new mode of multi-country joint application. In addition, it is worth noting that, under the epidemic situation, the number of applicants for Meibento schools has not decreased, but has increased. Compared with last year, the number of early applicants at Harvard University surged by 57%, MIT increased by 62%, Yale University increased by 38% and Columbia University increased by 49%.
Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the SAT and ACT of the college entrance examination before June were cancelled, so more than 50 colleges and universities adjusted their admission requirements and cancelled the score requirements of these two entrance examinations. Affected by this policy, in the United States, university applications flooded into schools this fall. In addition to Bato School, the number of applicants from other top American universities is also increasing. The number of applicants to the University of California reached a record high, with 249,855 applications received in the fall of * * * 202 1, an increase of1%over the same period last year; The total number of undergraduate applicants in new york University exceeded 654.38 million, an increase of 20% over last year; The application of Northeastern University has also increased by 17% compared with last year.
Many students said that they had not expected such a situation before: "Until a few months before the start of the application season, most overseas institutions predicted that the number of students applying to the United States would shrink sharply because of the epidemic. I didn't expect the number of applicants from so many schools to hit a record high. "
Standardized scores are optional or lead to an increase in applications.
"This year is not online class? How did the number of applicants increase so much? " People often ask such questions on social platforms for studying abroad. In addition to the disadvantages of online courses, the epidemic in the United States has not eased.
One of the reasons for the increase in the number of applicants is the extension of the application time: "Due to the epidemic, many universities have extended the application deadline, such as Duke University and Cornell University. This has led many applicants to have more time to prepare materials and choose to apply for multiple institutions. "
In addition to extending the application time, under the influence of the epidemic, more and more top universities in the United States have put forward standardized performance change policies (also known as exam optional policies). This policy means that students are not required to submit standardized scores. That is, when applying, students can choose whether to submit standardized scores without taking SAT/ACT scores as one of the materials that must be submitted.
Princeton University said that it will suspend its standardized test requirements again as part of the overall review process of the 20021-2022 application cycle: "In our application review process, students who do not submit test scores will not be at a disadvantage. Applications without test scores will be considered complete. "
The recent survey data of the application season of American colleges and universities show that this policy may not disappear with the disappearance of the epidemic, but will become a normal state of application for American colleges and universities in the future. Huide study abroad believes that whether the standardized score optional policy is beneficial to the entire American study abroad market can not be determined in the short term, and can only be known through periodic continuous surveys. But effective grades are definitely a plus for students. According to the application results in 2020 last year, students with high scores can still get better admission. I suggest you not relax. The other is to enrich their activities as much as possible and pay attention to the quality of activities. This soft background will undoubtedly account for an increasing proportion in applications.