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Counselors Series: The Ultimate Guide to Test-Optional Admissions

Recorded Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 05:30 PM

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Description

Join CollegeVine co-founder Vinay Bhaskara for an in depth look at test optional policies for counselors. He’ll walk through the different approaches that colleges take for test optional and test blind admissions, review the data after two years of widespread test optional policies, and help you think through advising around standardized tests for different student profiles.

He’ll also open the floor for an extensive Q&A to answer any and all questions about test-optional policies.

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Vinay Bhaskara

Education
University of Chicago
Bio
Vinay graduated with a 4.0 GPA and a 2400 (single sitting) on his SAT. Throughout his studies, Vinay genuinely enjoyed a wide range of subjects, ultimately leading him to take 19 AP exams (a school record), earning a score of 5 on all of them. In 2013, Vinay was named the State AP Scholar for the state of New Jersey, an award given to the one male and one female student in each U.S. state with scores of 3 or higher on the greatest number of AP Exams. He also scored perfectly on SAT subject tests in Math, Chemistry, US History, World Studies, and Biology. Vinay participated in a variety of clubs in high school such as Youth and Government, and Science Olympiad; however his main extracurricular passion was in aviation. He has spent six years working in the aviation industry, starting out as a lowly blogger and working his way up to become an analyst at an aerospace consultancy. His aviation analysis has been published by several publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, and Skift, and he has been quoted as an aviation expert in The Capital Forum, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He also published two ebooks on airline operations and co-hosted a podcast on Indian aviation. Separately, Vinay co-authored an SAT vocabulary book, drawing upon his extensive knowledge of the exam.

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