🌱 How Wingate University is pre-admitting thousands of students without applications
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- How Wingate University is pre-admitting thousands of students without applications
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📰 News we're reading
• Private colleges admitting more students who didn't apply (ocregister.com) — Wingate University is aggressively using “direct admissions” to pre-accept thousands of high school students, offering sizable scholarships and aiming to fill over half its freshman class this way. The article explains how Wingate and other colleges use platforms like Common App, Niche, and NC College Connect to reach more students, especially first-generation and in-state families. 
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