Despite the changing demographics of high-school graduates with an ever increasing number of low-income and first-generation students in the pipeline to higher education, the college admissions process has, for the most part, remained stuck in a previous era—when far fewer Americans went to college and the price of a degree was much less expensive. The cadence of the admissions calendar is similar to that of a generation ago, where a series of dates initiate a flurry of activity in a compressed time span during the fall and spring as students try to match their academic aspirations and financial realities with the right institution.
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