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What to Do If You Haven’t Applied to College Yet

There is still time to fulfill your college aspirations through ordinary admissions, even if the deadline of November 1st has passed. Here is a detailed guide to help you get […]

Your Target Colleges May Be At Risk

If you’re a rising senior, you’re looking forward to your upcoming college experience and expecting it to be one of the best chapters in your life. But what would happen […]

Should You Consider Taking a Gap Year?

If you’ve accepted a college’s offer of admission, you may find yourself in a dilemma. You don’t know if the campus will be open in the fall or if classes […]

Make This Summer a Positive Factor in Admissions

High GPA’s and test scores are the norm for students who apply to selective and highly selective colleges. For this reason, colleges also include “soft” factors such as essays, letters […]

Advances in Virtual College Visits

Past posts to this blog have extolled the high value of visits to the campuses of colleges that you’re interested in attending. Visits reveal more useful information about a […]

College Admissions Rates for the Class of 2024

The admissions statistics for the Class of 2024 may be the final report of a passing era. Applications for the Regular Decision cycle were due on the last day of […]

The Effects of the Pandemic on Seniors and Juniors

The Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted admissions processes at all colleges. High schools and colleges are closed and the ad hoc methods used to provide essential admissions-related services are, for the […]

The Stem Disciplines Demand Creativity Too

There is support in academic circles for adding an “A” to STEM, making it STEAM for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. There’s no need to add an “A” if […]

Your Résumé Can Boost Your Chances of Admission

There are colleges that require you to submit a résumé with your application. Many other colleges don’t require a résumé but encourage or allow you upload one and will consider […]

Top Colleges Increasingly Value Transfer Students

However compelling the case may be for transfer students, administrators of selective colleges have traditionally neglected them as applicants. They’ve stated that they were already inundated with applications from high […]