All high school students should subscribe to The Concord Review and read some of the best academic papers written by their peers. We’ve encouraged our students to submit to The Concord Review. Not only does this raise their level of scholarship in attempting to sharpen a paper for publication, but it encourages them to READ […]
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First Generation College Applicants
We have received a number of questions recently from first-generation college applicants so we will focus this week’s newsletter on that topic. In addition to the information we offer in this newsletter, we also encourage you to check out Michele’s recent article on the New York Times blog The Choice. We have noticed students whose […]
We can’t tell you how many times kids tell us they want to go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc… but when we ask them why, they have no specific reason. Colleges want to know WHY you are applying—are you impressed by their world-famous chemistry program? The well-known English department? The art history department with […]
At every high school there are casual athletes, serious athletes, and elite athletes. Almost all selective colleges value athletic experience, and most top high schools have extensive enough athletic programs that almost any student can make their way onto a team. If you’re not immersed in the arts or sciences, there’s no reason not to […]
Yale is the only Ivy that offers on-campus EVALUATIVE interviews. Harvard offers on-campus interviews, but they are not added to a student’s file. Neither Stanford nor MIT offers on-campus interviews. Columbia and Penn allow legacies (and they count parents OR grandparents as legacies in this sense) to interview on campus. We always recommend taking advantage […]
