Top Tier Admissions
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
School’s out for summer! For rising seniors, this is not the time to sink too heavily into your beach chair (unless you have your laptop at the ready). This summer is a critical time to work on your college essays. Wrapping up your application package before the start of your senior year allows you to […]
In an admissions landscape defined by sky-high application numbers and single-digit acceptance rates, is it possible to be “too cool for school?” Students who are denied from schools where they feel they should have been accepted sometimes point to yield protection as a rationale. Can you really be rejected for being “overqualified”? WHAT IS YIELD […]
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