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2025 SCAD graduate!

Here’s an article about semicolons; I recommend reading it if you’re preparing for the SAT or ACT…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/09/20/younger-americans-semicolons-grammar-use-decline-why/85882680007/ #

The semicolon, 'the most feared punctuation on Earth,' is in decline; does it matter? Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still value it.

A few interesting facts about college students:

“Some nine million students are enrolled at community colleges, accounting for 43 percent of America’s undergraduates.”

“Roughly 1.4 million undergraduate students are single mothers, making up 9 percent of America’s undergraduate population.”

“26 percent of students take classes exclusively online”

“25 percent of all undergraduate students live with their parents”

The Typical American College Student Is Not Who You Think As a fight over the future of elite higher education consumes university leaders and politicians, most college students live in a very different world with very different challenges.

“The playbook goes something like this:
1) Buy a pile of names of students from appropriately affluent ZIP codes and pitch them relentlessly with a gripping case for going far from home.
2) Upgrade the admissions staff, adding people with corporate sales experience, as the College of Charleston did.
3) Set a high tuition price, creating the perception of value.
4) To make prospects feel especially exalted, offer a fat academic scholarship — but not so much that they aren’t still paying more than in-state students.”

Colleges Know How Much You’re Willing to Pay. Here’s How. Schools turn to little-known consultants, owned by private equity firms, to find applicants and calculate scholarships. Here’s how that affects the price you pay.

Thank you, Winter 2025 SAT Prep students!

Affirmative Action Was Banned. What Happened Next Was Confusing. Here is what we know about the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision curtailing race-based admissions at selective universities. And why many experts and administrators are baffled.