Top Tier Admissions
The Common Application released their essay prompts early this year. Usually, the prompts are an exact repeat from the previous year (as has been the case for four years) but this year they’re changing it up —just what you need this year, more change. Thankfully, it’s not too much! OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH […]
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. (with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Juniors: now is the time to start showing colleges some love! Demonstrated interest – yours – increasingly is a factor in the admissions selection process. Although admissions officers are fully engaged in the review of applications for the Class […]
Every day things seem to shift and change in the college admissions landscape. Add in a pandemic and things become even murkier. As you know from reading our blog posts, the test-optional narrative isn’t a free pass if you are aiming high. We still recommend that our students prep for and take the ACT or SAT and APs! We will keep you posted on […]
The COVID-19 virus has completely disrupted the world of college admissions, with policy changes in standardized testing, dramatic shifts in opportunities during the school year and summer, and fluctuating statistics in college admissions. The college experience has also been quite transformed through what experts are wryly calling “forced innovations,” although students and professors look forward […]
Another year for the record books, as top colleges and universities see their overall application volumes soar in this most unprecedented cycle. Among the eye-popping statistics we’ve seen, NYU tops 100,000 applications, Harvard’s pool grows by 57 percent, and Colgate receives double the number of applications as compared to last year. TEST-OPTIONAL = DRIVING FORCE […]
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