Top Tier Admissions
This has been an unbelievable year in college admissions. We’ve worked with students and families for over 15 years and nothing stays the same, we promise that. The sheer number of applications is rising. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Pomona, Stanford, U Penn, Emory and Yale are just some of the schools who report the largest […]
–post by Dr. Kristen Willmott The November 1 early deadline has come and gone. Our seniors are done with their college applications and essays often before senior year even starts, as we want them to focus on their courses this fall, not essay writing at 10pm on a Friday. We realize, however, that many seniors […]
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 […]
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