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What To Do If You Were Deferred

Around the first week of March, admissions offices at top colleges sort through all their deferred candidates in order to see how many they will ultimately admit. Much will depend upon the strength of their applicant pool for regular admission — was it higher than usual? Were applications up? Was there a strong geographic spread? […]

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Understanding the Academic Index

By: Dr. Michele Hernandez During the four years I worked as an Assistant Director of Admissions at Dartmouth College, I was mystified as to why we were not allowed to speak about the “secret formula” when we printed it on the front of every application folder. Yet when parents asked us if we used a […]

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Are You Stressed Out?

A survey of U.S. students by The Princeton Review affirmed what hundreds of you are tell us: High School Students are Stressed Out over the College Admissions Process! Princeton Review found that 28 percent of students worried the most about not being able to get into their first choice. The survey also found that 64 […]

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