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Along with your essays and letters of recommendation, the college interview offers admissions committees a helpful personal perspective on you as an applicant and potential member of their college community. Through interviews, admissions officers are hoping to learn more about you and how you would enhance or enrich their college community. Interviewers want to know […]
So you think you can dance… or sing… or play the bassoon… All colleges strive to have vibrant and diverse student communities. A thriving student arts scene enriches the community for all and serves as an important incubator for creativity, risk-taking, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication – in short, all the things you hope a top […]
College students elect to transfer for any number of reasons: a shift in academic interests, the completion of a two-year degree program, another shot at their dream school, even a change of heart about their original college. In fact, as we’ve noted before, almost one-third of students will transfer at some point during their college […]
Greetings, We wanted our Top Tier Admissions community to be the first to know our exciting news. Maria Laskaris, former Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Dartmouth College, has joined our team and will be sharing her incredible insider perspective on Ivy League college admissions with our families. Maria will be working with a […]
When the Common Application came along with the premise of making the college application process easier than the many individual applications for each college, students and teachers rejoiced. That was then…. NOW, most colleges seem to have 3 or 4 of their own supplemental essays in addition to what’s asked on the Common Application. Why? […]
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