• Aly was honored to be former AV mom, Paris Ernst Serpico’s Woman of the Week. They sat down to talk about college admissions in a four part series.

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  • Admissions factors in college applications often boil down to grades plus tests and then the rest. What happens when the influence of standardized scores is minimized or entirely excluded? Amy Seeley and Mike Bergin of the Tests and The Rest podcast asked the University of Rochester’s Vice Provost and Dean of Enrollment Management Robert Alexander and educational consultant Aly Beaumont the million dollar question: what do truly test optional colleges focus on?