How College Admissions Officers Decide Who To Admit
Filling out a college application can be intimidating. It’s hard to know where to focus. Find out how college admissions officers decide who to admit.
Athena Valentine Lent is a finance columnist for Slate and the author of Budgeting for Dummies. Her writing has appeared in BuzzzFeed, Tripadvisor, and Slate, among other places. Her personal finance blog, Money Smart Latina, won the Plutus Award for "Best Personal Finance Content for Underserved Communities" in 2020 and was nominated for "Blog of the Year" in 2022. When not working she can be found reading Stephen King with her main man, a polydactal cat named Harrison George.
At The College Investor, Athena covers budgeting, debt management, and the financial challenges facing everyday Americans — particularly those whose stories are rarely centered in traditional money conversations. Whether she is writing a column, leading a workshop, or advocating for the Latina wage gap to be taken seriously, Athena approaches every topic with the same conviction: financial knowledge is a form of power, and everyone deserves access to it.

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