Bennington College on Wednesday announced a new option for undergraduate applicants in which they themselves determine entirely what to send or not send for consideration.
The college was already test-optional and a member of the Common Application, and will continue to accept applications that way. But a new “dimensional admissions” option will let students create their entire application portfolio (including transcripts from high school only if they wish).
There will be no suggested format except for this broad prompt: “We invite you to share with us a collection of your work that speaks to these capacities and creates a portrait of what you bring to the Bennington community. We invite you to be deeply thoughtful. We invite you to be bold. We invite you to bring your own dimension to the college application.”
Bennington officials said that in the same way that the college encourages students to be creative and to think for themselves, the college now wants to see how applicants demonstrate those qualities.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/25/bennington-introduces-new-option-applicants
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