Tagged: "acceptance"
You’ve Applied Early to College, Now What?
When students apply early admission to a college, it can be tempting to wait until December 15th before working on other college essays...
Will There Be A Larger Waitlist This Year?
Will there be a larger waitlist in college admissions this year?
Are SAT and ACT Tests Really Essential for College Admission?
As a follow-up to our series on standardized testing and test-optional colleges, you might be interested in this video by a father-daughter team who are acting out against the SAT. If you like what they have to say, you might sign their petition at ACToutagainstSAT.org. SAT + ACT = Unfair + Biased? from Sam Kauffmann [...]
Student Thanks College Consultant for Excellent Advice
I just wanted to thank you for everything, and I mean everything. I really don’t know (much less would I want to conceive) what this whole situation would be like were you not there to help me every step of the way.
Thanks for helping my son achieve his goal of attending Dartmouth
Thanks for helping Alex achieve his goal of attending Dartmouth. Your help was invaluable. I appreciate how the two of you handled everything so smoothly. I am feeling lucky that I ran across your name on the Internet.
Buy, Steal, or Cheat Your Way Into the Ivy League–Secrets Revealed!
Some folks are desperate. And desperation is the mother of capitalistic invention. A new online company peddles “verified” student applications to Ivy League institutions. IvyAnalytics.com offers Ivy-aspirants the opportunity to put in a bit of data about themselves, then matches the student up to a set of applications to your preferred institution. Allegedly, these “verified” [...]
Accepted or Rejected? The Envelope Please….
Today is April 1st, the day by which colleges and universities across the land must tell their applicants of their decision: accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. I was interviewed by Forbes.com the other day regarding my opinion about how students should handle the prospect of being rejected to their first choice school. You can read what [...]
Wanna Get Into College? Show the Love!
Even in the economic downturn, many of the top colleges are still inundated with applications. Some colleges, like Williams, have experienced a decline in applications. Still, the desks of admissions officers are piled high with file folders containing the applications of qualified candidates–many, many more than they can ever accept. I wrote a very popular [...]
Colleges and Universities React to the Economic Crisis: Gnash Teeth, Wring Hands…and Repeat
In a pair of pieces appearing this past weekend in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, two journalists illustrate that this admissions season perhaps will be the wackiest ever. Not only are students sweating over whether they will be accepted or rejected, colleges are facing the same anxieties: will enough students say [...]
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