Top Tier Admissions
by Dr. Kristen Willmott The time for graduate school admissions is in full swing with December, January and February deadlines approaching. As a result, we are fielding lots of calls from parents and prospective graduate students who are seeking help in the process. As the Director at Top Tier Admissions, and utilizing my experience as […]
All high school students should subscribe to The Concord Review and read some of the best academic papers written by their peers. We’ve encouraged our students to submit to The Concord Review. Not only does this raise their level of scholarship in attempting to sharpen a paper for publication, but it encourages them to READ […]
We can’t tell you how many times kids tell us they want to go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, etc… but when we ask them why, they have no specific reason. Colleges want to know WHY you are applying—are you impressed by their world-famous chemistry program? The well-known English department? The art history department with […]
At every high school there are casual athletes, serious athletes, and elite athletes. Almost all selective colleges value athletic experience, and most top high schools have extensive enough athletic programs that almost any student can make their way onto a team. If you’re not immersed in the arts or sciences, there’s no reason not to […]
Yale is the only Ivy that offers on-campus EVALUATIVE interviews. Harvard offers on-campus interviews, but they are not added to a student’s file. Neither Stanford nor MIT offers on-campus interviews. Columbia and Penn allow legacies (and they count parents OR grandparents as legacies in this sense) to interview on campus. We always recommend taking advantage […]
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