When colleges don’t have room to accept a student, but also don’t want to reject them, they now have a third option.
Continue readingA New Kind of Wait List for College Admissions
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 I said on the Forbes.com site here.
But the best advice comes from students. This short video offers the best advice I could possibly give to a student whose hopes have been crushed. He’s a sophomore who has turned lemons into lemonade.
Take it from this guy…who has been there before…
Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant
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Colleges Accepting More Students Who Can Pay Full Fare – NYTimes.com
As students wait to hear from college admission offices in the next couple of days, this story from the New York Times highlights the cold, hard realities of economics. The story is entitled Colleges Accepting More Students Who Can Pay Full Fare.
The title is pretty self-explanatory. With fewer parents willing or able to take out huge private loans to finance a private education, we will find more colleges will move to admit more students who are able to pay full freight.
It’s not exactly fair, but it’s the reality.
Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant
