All of these changes mean that the class of 2022 will need to rethink traditional college admissions advice.
Many schools, including the University of California system (the largest public university system in the country), have stopped accepting standardized test scores at all, becoming fully test-blind.
"Admissions counselors are human and if 100 kids say the same thing we can get a little tired of mundane stories.
He says students should avoid writing essays that could be written by someone else.
And often, students who are a little bit more well-lopsided, or angular, fare better in the admissions process," he says.