Top Tier Admissions
As we’ve seen through recent rankings shake ups over the last few years, some of the most prominent college ranking systems are deeply flawed and strategically manipulated to bolster institutional prestige and application volume. The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges for 2024 rankings offer a different approach: they’re based solely on student survey responses. While this […]
Boston College offers four supplemental essay choices for 2023-2024 applicants. This flexibility is a fantastic opportunity for students to highlight their specific strengths and personality. Applicants must respond to one of the prompts #1-4, unless they’re applying for the Human-Centered Engineering major, in which case they must respond to prompt #5 only. With a word […]
Stanford’s 2023-2024 supplemental essays include one of our all-time favorite prompts, the notorious “roommate essay.” Stanford asks applicants to “Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate – and us – get to know you better.” This is a tough question to answer in only […]
Applying early admission is one of the most strategic moves you can make in seeking admission to a competitive college. Simply put, admissions rates are notably higher for early applicants who are in range, meaning that some students admitted in the early round would not be if they had waited for subsequent admissions rounds. Early […]
Now that we’ve processed the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action, the next admissions practice under scrutiny is legacy admissions, especially at the most highly selective colleges and universities. Just a few days after the latest ruling, the Boston-based group Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights […]
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