Admissions 101: What gets considered in holistic review?

Everything that is submitted is considered as part of holistic review. This includes: What school you went to; what opportunities were available to you; and where your time and energy is spent. If your school offers a lot of different opportunities, we like to see you taking advantage of some of those. But, on the other hand, if your school doesn't offer a lot of AP classes or other opportunities, that won't be held against you.

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It's important for students to remember that everything that they submit to us is gonna be considered in the holistic review, so that means that we're gonna be considering what school you go to, what opportunities have been available to you, where your time and energy is being spent.

If you're a student, again, who works outside the classroom, or may have family responsibilities, or is even helping to financially support your family, we're gonna take that into context. We're looking at your grades, your activities.

That also means that if your school offers a lot of different opportunities like test prep, AP, and honors classes, and you're doing well, we'd like to see you take advantage of some of those things, so we're gonna look at what's been available to you and what you took advantage of, as appropriate for you.

Goes the other way around as well. I always give the example, I went to the smallest public high school in Massachusetts, and my high school only offered two AP classes. One was in Spanish, and I studied French in high school, and one was in chemistry, and that's just really not my jam. I'm more of an arts and history type girl, so I didn't take any AP classes in high school, but it wasn't because I was the type of student who didn't wanna take a challenge or who just wanted to coast along. It was because only one was an option for me, and I knew it wasn't an area of strength, and it wouldn't be the right choice for me, but we would look at that and say, "Oh, this high school only offers two APs, "and she wasn't eligible for one," which is totally different than a school that offers 17 AP classes at all different levels that are offered in multiple sections, and you're getting straight As and just choose not to enroll in one.

So, we do look at the context and what's available to you when we're really evaluating your grades, your test scores, your extracurriculars, and all of that good stuff.

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