Top Tier Admissions
Earlier this month, the Top Tier Admissions team held our 19th annual Application Boot Camp®. Our students came in prepared and finished the ABC program on a high note. You see, ABC isn’t JUST four days. We work with most of our students 1-2 years ahead of our Boot Camp days so they can hit […]
As summer winds down and senior year approaches, early round application deadlines are coming up fast. School lists and application strategies are no longer hypothetical scenarios, but rather concrete plans to be executed in the coming weeks. If you’re still a bit hazy on all the different early options, we’re here to define them for […]
In July, we welcomed Nellie Brennan Hall to the Top Tier Admissions team.  As Associate Director of Admissions at Brown University, Nellie spent nearly a decade recruiting and evaluating applicants. She then moved into college counseling at independent schools, helping students craft essays and guiding them through every stage of the college search and application process. […]
It’s August 1st, which means one thing in the college admissions world: the Common App is LIVE! This online application platform allows students to apply to multiple schools at once and is used by more than 900 colleges and universities to streamline the application process. Although the Common App essay prompts will remain the same […]
Prospective college students looking for Columbia in the US News and World Report (USNWR) college rankings will have to keep scrolling—the Ivy League institution in New York City is no longer listed. Following a Columbia professor’s accusations and a follow-up internal investigation into the accuracy of the school’s self-reported data, Columbia decided to withdraw from […]
The Senior Year Roadmap
Every deadline from August to May – test dates, applications. decisions – in one place. Signup to download the full 9-page Senior Year Roadmap (PDF)