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 […]
Tag: Ivy League
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 […]
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? […]
