Early Admissions UPDATE: Class of 2024
What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, higher ed reporters were trumpeting the growing popularity of early decision programs. Several top schools hit record highs with the number of early decision applicants; as a result, early […]
Prestigious, Tuition-Free Summer Programs
As we’ve mentioned before, summer offers an opportunity not just for rest and relaxation, but also for intellectual exploration. College admissions officers want to admit active, enthusiastic learners, so they look carefully at how students spend their time away from […]
Class of 2024: Early Decision and Early Action Notification Dates
Your early round applications are IN and as the great Tom Petty originally sang, ‘The waiting is the hardest part’. Boy, was he ever right! We’ve compiled the most up-to-date listing of early decision and early action notification dates for […]
Define Your Values – Refine Your College List
There are over four thousand colleges and universities in the United States, and thousands more across the globe. You’ve heard about some of them from your teachers, school counselors, family members, and friends. You may have read through ranking lists, […]
2019-2020 Supplemental Essay Prompts: Early Releases **Updated**
We’ve had students, now at top colleges, write supplemental essays on topics including unicycling, robotics, drywall construction, feminist literature, squash, building playgrounds, working at a sandwich shop, baling hay, and Mexican baking. Many students come to us feeling unsure of […]
Why Our 4-Day Application Boot Camp® Sells Out Annually
In August, we wrapped our 15th year of Application Boot Camp®, and this month has been an exciting one as our students were prepared and have submitted their strong early applications. We’ve been busily chatting with parents of juniors (ABC 2020, Aug. 5-8, […]
Is Early Decision Right for You?
For many students, the most fraught part of the admissions process is not writing essays or asking for letters of recommendation, but choosing an Early Decision school. Applying Early Decision allows students to submit an application to a single school […]
Data Science and Passion-Driven Statistics
Data is everywhere and is growing at a dizzying speed. The World Economic Forum predicts that our entire digital universe will be 44 zettabytes by 2020. (What’s a zettabyte? It’s 10007 bytes.) If that’s not eye-popping enough, here’s how the WEF breaks that […]
UPDATED: Class of 2023 Admissions Statistics
Our stats gurus have been hard at work compiling the most up to date Class of 2023 admissions statistics. Many schools disclosed their stats much later than normal so we took advantage of the delays to verify all numbers and […]
Schools Without Supplemental Essays: 2019 Edition
The relationship between college admissions and students is not a reciprocal one. So much GIVE, GIVE, GIVE by the student followed by a lot of TAKE, TAKE, TAKE from the schools. The Common App itself is tedious and filled with […]
