Top Tier AdmissionsMichele has been featured in hundreds of newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs including Newsweek, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Atlantic Monthly, The Today Show, CNN, and MSNBC and is an ongoing contributor to The Huffington Post. As assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College for four years and the academic dean of a private high school in South Florida, Michele has crafted a unique angle for assisting students in gaining admission to the most selective colleges, incorporating her “inside perspective” on the admissions adventure.
Dr. Michele Hernández has written the best-selling books: A is for Admission, The Middle School Years, Acing the College Application and Don’t Worry You’ll Get In which she wrote with Mimi Doe. Her new book on hiking all the Northeast mountains over 4000 feet is now available on Amazon.
Twenty years ago, admissions to top colleges was much more formulaic. Applicant pools were smaller, more homogeneous, and more self-selecting. Each college had its own application that students filled out by hand. Most high schools calculated and reported class rank. “Merit” was pretty much defined as high class rank and high test scores, with some […]
Many parents ask us “why liberal arts?” Why not just business/medicine/law – what relevance do the liberal arts have for students today amidst all of this technology, focus on money, and career and technological advancements? My former professor and (current) friend Professor James Tatum from Dartmouth College writes an elegant defense of classics in particular, […]
Post by Dr. Michele Hernandez Thanks to some clever Stanford students, admitted students may be able to gain access to their college applications complete with admissions officers’ comments. But, that sounds easier in theory than it is in practice. Some schools actually shred files after the admissions season so you can’t gain access to information that […]
Posted by Michele Hernandez For many of our students, single choice early action (the very restrictive program used by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford) is a tough choice. For those who fall in love with a SCEA college, it’s a big risk because unlike early decision, SCEA prohibits applications to other early action colleges (that […]
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