High school seniors all over the state may be spending their Thanksgiving break chewing their nails to shreds as they race against the end-of-month deadline to apply for the fall 2021 semester at University of California schools. This year, college essays may be more important to an application than ever, since high school grades, extracurriculars and standardized tests have largely been sabotaged by the pandemic

<p>High school seniors all over the state may be spending their Thanksgiving break chewing their nails to shreds as they race against the end-of-month deadline to apply for the fall 2021 semester at University of California schools. This year, college essays may be more important to an application than ever, since high school grades, extracurriculars and standardized tests have <a href="https://laist.com/how-to-new-la/reinvent/like-everything-else-applying-to-college-is-very-weird-now-heres-how-to-do-it.php">largely been sabotaged</a> by the pandemic</p>

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