Save your best graded papers! A new trend in college admissions is that more and more colleges are requiring a graded writing sample in lieu of the writing section on the ACT or the SAT, or as part of their test-optional admissions requirements. So don’t throw your best papers away – keep them! Teachers usually do not…
Happy Holidays! First and foremost, we’d like to congratulate our amazing 2019 seniors. So far there have been exciting early acceptances to schools including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Michigan, Rice, Emory, GW, Babson, NYU, Tulane, UM, Northeastern, Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, and several others. We…
Below is a chart of some of the early acceptance data released by a sample of different highly selective schools. College/ University # of ED/EA Applicants # of Accepted ED/EA Applicants % Acceptance Rate of ED/EA Applicants Fall ‘19 % Acceptance Rate of ED/EA Applicants Fall ‘18 Brown 4,230 769 18% 21.1% Cornell 6,159 1,395…
This month, many students who applied to college Early Decision or Early Action will receive notification that they’ve been deferred. This means they’ve neither been accepted nor rejected – a sort of college purgatory. Unlike a rejection, a deferral offers hope…you have not been rejected! The college is asking you to wait. Now you have two…
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship application is now available online for 2019 seniors. The Bright Futures Scholarship is a merit-based program that rewards Florida high school graduates for academic achievement. It is not based on financial need. All Florida seniors who meet the requirements should complete the application. Even if you are NOT planning to attend a Florida…