Demonstrated Interest: How to find it on the Common Data Set
For colleges that care whether high school students “demonstrate interest” before applying to college, doing so can create a college admission advantage. I explain how to figure out which colleges don’t care if you demonstrate interest. This can save time you time during your college-bound journey! For those colleges who don’t care, you don’t have to feel the pressure to reply to every email or send in the postcard they are asking for.
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hey there my flourish friends
I am dropping in real quick because I
want to teach you how to do something I
just finished uh recording episode
number 52.
that is going to talk about demonstrated
interest I had to guess Sylvia Borgo she
is an independent educational consultant
and we had a fantastic conversation
around demonstrated interest
and we weren’t really able to fully
teach in there how to figure out if a
college values demonstrated interest so
I decided to pop in and share my screen
and teach you guys how to do this so
let’s go ahead and do it let me get it
pulled up let’s see
okay so we’re gonna go ahead and Google
and we’re gonna put in the words common
data oh
comment data set and then we’re gonna
put in the name of a college so I’m
going to choose one that I know values
demonstrated interest so I’m going to go
University
of Dayton
in Dayton Ohio I got my master’s degree
from there okay so as we come here
we see common data set not all colleges
um share the common data set but most do
so uh you know if you can’t find it it’s
not the end of the world
um we’re here their most recent one is
right here it’s from 2021
2022 and let’s make this a little bit
bigger okay so where you’re going to
head is you can see is this is set a of
information I’m gonna head to set C and
for those of you that are applying as
first time freshmen to
um College set C is what you’re going to
be most interested in so set C starts
back here generally on page five you get
all kinds of great information and we
are looking for set C7 so see how this
says C1 right here we are looking for
set C7 and it’s going to be right down
here
okay so C7 we’re going down this tells
you how much a college cares about the
various aspects that relate to you as an
applicant
and for as you can see there’s many uses
for this and this is fantastic
information but for our purpose today
when we’re talking about demonstrated
interests right here at the very bottom
it says level of applicants interest so
have you shown the college that you like
them
for colleges that Mark very important
important or considered that means that
when they email you if you’re interested
in them you better reply open those
emails reply for the colleges that do
not consider it which are numerous then
they’re not going to track whether you
open that email or you apply whether you
demonstrate interest ahead of applying
will not affect whether you get in or
not at those colleges but for the
colleges that do care that say it’s very
important important or considered that
it can affect whether you can get in if
you want to learn more head on over to
flourishcoachico.com podcast Tab and
look for episode number 52 with Sylvia
Borgo on demonstrated interest okay my
friends just wanting to drop in here and
give you ways to to Resource your
college-bound journey see you soon
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