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 […]
Whether you’re about to take SAT’s or have already taken them and are waiting to hear from colleges, it will always be a benefit to make a reading list of 10 “classics” that you have never had the time to read in high school. How about Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Virgil’s Aeneid, […]
Extracurricular activities DO matter for college admissions—but only when academics are strong. On the 1-9 scale (using the Academic Index Calculator), if you’re only a 1-4, that means that your academics are low enough that extracurriculars won’t make up for them. On the other hand, if you’re an academic 8-9, they won’t care as much […]
Students often ask what they can do if their alumni interview was horrible. How could an interview be horrible? Every once in a while, alumni interviewers (who often have zero training in how to interview) use their interview to reminisce about the “good old days” when they were college students and don’t give you a […]
As you know, SAT Subject Tests are very important at top colleges, even more so that SAT’s. They serve as a true equalizer for students coming from disparate high schools. How can college committees compare an A in Biology at a small high school in Kansas with an A in Biology at a top New […]
