Top Tier Admissions
You don’t need to know what you want to be when you grow up. But you do need to know how to explore what interests you. For many high school students, choosing a college major can feel like an enormous decision. The question seems simple enough: What do you want to study? But underneath it […]
Every year, talented applicants submit graduate applications built around the same parameters that helped them prepare a strong and winning Common Application: open with a catchy hook, tell a compelling story, relay a scholarly niche, and showcase strong character and promise. Those essentials have their place, but they are not what graduate admissions committees are […]
I still remember the day my oldest child decided to apply to Brown. I scoured the admission data that year, determined to find some ray of optimism in an otherwise dismal landscape of bloated applicant pools, plunging admit rates, and impossibly high application standards. Like every parent, I wanted my child to obtain what he […]
When our students begin visiting colleges, we encourage them to explore many different types of schools, considering institutions both big and small, urban and rural, public and private, etc. Students generally embrace this advice. They weigh the merits of large urban schools with open campuses against midsize schools in quaint college towns and compare the […]
If you’ve spent any time on college admissions social media lately, you may have seen the headline: Vanderbilt is opening a campus in New York City. There are photos of a beautiful Chelsea building, references to the High Line, and a lot of excitement about Vanderbilt’s expansion beyond Nashville. Here is the distinction that matters […]
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