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Boost Your College Admissions Odds with Early Decision

As summer winds down and senior year approaches, early round application deadlines are coming up fast. School lists and application strategies are no longer hypothetical scenarios, but rather concrete plans to be executed in the coming weeks. If you’re still a bit hazy on all the different early options, we’re here to define them for […]

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Get into Brown: 5 Insider Tips

In July, we welcomed Nellie Brennan Hall to the Top Tier Admissions team.  As Associate Director of Admissions at Brown University, Nellie spent nearly a decade recruiting and evaluating applicants. She then moved into college counseling at independent schools, helping students craft essays and guiding them through every stage of the college search and application process. […]

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Grad School Admissions: Our #1 Tip Before You Apply

Grad school faculty are finishing their research projects and soaking up the last rays of summer sun before heading back to campus. Soon they’ll be diving back into lab work, polishing up old syllabi that have been through the ringer (from on-campus courses to virtual and back again), taking on new advisees and working to […]

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College Interviews: Tips and Tricks

Welcome to interview season! We’re getting a lot of questions this month about college interviews. What is the purpose of admissions interviews? When do they take place? Are they informational or evaluative? On campus or virtual? How much weight do they carry? Will I be interviewed by a current student? An alum? An admissions officer? […]

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Columbia Unranked: Interpreting College Rankings

Prospective college students looking for Columbia in the US News and World Report (USNWR) college rankings will have to keep scrolling—the Ivy League institution in New York City is no longer listed. Following a Columbia professor’s accusations and a follow-up internal investigation into the accuracy of the school’s self-reported data, Columbia decided to withdraw from […]

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