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I still remember the well-loved leather chair where I sat drinking black coffee in a coffee shop on Nassau Street while reading Delaying the Real World: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to Seeking Adventure. It was May 2006: I had just turned in my senior thesis—a 100-page philosophical treatise on morality and the nature of blame—and my […]
There are a few reasons you might be interested in colleges and universities with late application deadlines. Perhaps you were deferred in the early round and want to add more options to your college list without the rush of the (typical) January 1, regular round application deadline? Perhaps you’re hoping to boost your SAT or […]
Michele was quoted in the Education Life section of the NY Times this week in response to gap year options. Thanks in part perhaps to President Obama’s daughter Malia opting to take a year off before college, gap years have become much more popular as burned out students are seeking a respite from the grind. […]
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 […]
As you’ve probably read in countless recent articles, Malia Obama is taking a gap year and will attend Harvard in 2017. Gap years or post-grad (PG) years have grown quite common and we have many requests from students and parents for advice on gap year planning. According to the American Gap Association, from 2014-2015, there […]
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