How to prepare for a college interview
As part of a continuing series on nailing the college admissions interview, Mark offers some tips on how to make a good impression.
December 10, 2013
As part of a continuing series on nailing the college admissions interview, Mark offers some tips on how to make a good impression.
Mark continues his tips on how to nail the college admission interview by explaining the student’s objective in preparing for admission.
Interviews are an important element of the admissions process. In the first in a series of posts on nailing the admissions interview, Mark explains why colleges offer interviews in the…
Great College Advice looks at a recent article critiquing Payscale’s data on “return on investment” for America’s colleges and universities.
“Average Class Size” When colleges advertise their “average class size,” they are obscuring a fact. Many of the classes you will take as an undergraduate will be large lecture courses
Does your GPA reflect the knowledge you gained in a class? The answer, according to an article recently published by the Association of Middle Level Education, is probably not. Teachers…
At the heart of every college essay is a good story. Everyone loves a good story, but what are the elements that make it good. Reflecting on these elements can…
Mark’s final post in a series on essays explore the prompt in which students are asked to recount an incident that marks their transition from childhood to adulthood.
The new perfect college essay prompts for the Common Application are much more narrow than they have been in the past. However, some of the questions are new takes on