Tag: College Admissions

Many parents ask us “why liberal arts?” Why not just business/medicine/law – what relevance do the liberal arts have for students today amidst all of this technology, focus on money, and career and technological advancements? My former professor and (current) friend Professor James Tatum from Dartmouth College writes an elegant defense of classics in particular, […]

Post by Dr. Michele Hernandez  Thanks to some clever Stanford students, admitted students may be able to gain access to their college applications complete with admissions officers’ comments. But, that sounds easier in theory than it is in practice. Some schools actually shred files after the admissions season so you can’t gain access to information that […]

A post by Dr. Kristen Willmott & Dr. Michele Hernandez The season for juniors to request letters of recommendation inches closer and closer by the day. Teacher recommendations are a vital part of the college admissions process. High school students who get into the very top colleges are those with off-the-charts teacher recommendations that say […]

Last year (spring 2013), Harvard received 1,486 transfer applications and 15 were accepted — about a 1% transfer admissions rate. Dartmouth received 683 transfer applications, 57 were admitted and 27 enrolled. Amherst received 471 transfer applications, 20 were accepted and 13 enrolled. The University of Virginia received 2,456 transfer applications, 996 were admitted, and 618 […]

Posted by Michele Hernandez For many of our students, single choice early action (the very restrictive program used by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford) is a tough choice. For those who fall in love with a SCEA college, it’s a big risk because unlike early decision, SCEA prohibits applications to other early action colleges (that […]