Top Tier Admissions
I recently finished the book 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by David Yeager and was struck by how relevant the content is to my work with students. I found myself highlighting so many quotes, page after page. While the book isn’t about college admissions, it could have been. Much of my […]
Every now and then when I hop onto Instagram, I’ll veer away from my usual feed featuring posts from Upworthy and interior designers to check out “decision accounts” at various high schools. If you’re not familiar with these already, they are typically named something similar to “schoolnamedecisionsclassyear” or as an example “bellairehigh26decisions.” As I scroll […]
The College Board has announced that AP scores will begin rolling out on July 6, 2026. If you haven’t already, log in to your account now to test your credentials — the last thing you want is to be locked out when your scores finally appear. Once you’re in, opening that score portal can bring […]
Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas, anchors undergraduate life in a residential college system that houses students for all four years and maintains a roughly 6-to-1 student-faculty ratio. The university admitted 2,984 of 38,603 applicants to the Class of 2030 for an overall acceptance rate of 7.7%, according to the Rice Thresher. […]
The junior year of high school intimidates students long before it arrives. It looms like a bully, threatening total exhaustion, unimaginably difficult classes, and high expectations. But students forget that each year of high school prepares them for the next; they have been building the skills and prerequisite knowledge one year at a time. But […]
The Senior Year Roadmap
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