Top Tier Admissions
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 […]
Every spring, families watch acceptance rates drop a little further — and ask the same question: what does it actually take? The 2025–26 cycle offered some answers. Admissions offices are reading more carefully, cross-referencing more deliberately, and growing more skilled at identifying what’s genuine versus what’s been engineered to impress. We recently hosted a webinar […]
The Senior Year Roadmap
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