{"id":1019,"date":"2017-06-15T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:21:20","slug":"expert-insight-college-admission-and-the-class-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/expert-insight-college-admission-and-the-class-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Insight: College Admission and the Class of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a few short months, this year\u2019s crop of high school grads will head to college.<\/p>\n

How did the Class of 2017 decide where to matriculate?<\/p>\n

NACAC\u2019s immediate past president, Phil Trout, recently offered some insight based on his experience working with seniors at Minnetonka High School (MN).<\/p>\n

Here are three takeaways from his interview with EAB<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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1) Early applications are on the rise.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve noticed a significant impact on early applications,\u201d said Trout. \u201cBy Nov. 1, 60 percent more of our students had already applied to schools than the previous year\u2014primarily for Early Action (EA) institutions and scholarship-linked priority institutions, not Early Decision (ED).\u201d<\/p>\n

2) The use of wait lists appears to be up. <\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve definitely seen increased wait list numbers,\u201d Trout told EAB. \u201cThey more than doubled from the year prior, and I\u2019ve heard the same thing from other college counselors.<\/p>\n

3) Students are conscious of costs.<\/strong> \u201cGen Z high school graduates \u2014 including those from private high schools \u2014 have an increased affinity for affordable public flagship schools,\u201d Trout said. \u201cI had one student turn down multiple Ivy League acceptances for a presidential scholarship to a public school. This is not something I would have seen three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read EAB\u2019s full blog post<\/a> and check out NACAC\u2019s State of College Admission<\/a><\/em> report for more insights about the admission process.<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a few short months, this year\u2019s crop of high school grads will head to college. How did the Class of 2017 decide where to matriculate? NACAC\u2019s immediate past president, Phil Trout, recently offered some insight based on his experience working with seniors at Minnetonka High School (MN). Here are three takeaways from his interview … Continue reading Expert Insight: College Admission and the Class of 2017<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-gr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}