Here’s how to protect yourself: Look up the organization offering the scholarship. Scams often misuse the names of legitimate government and nonprofit organizations. They may also be using words like “national,” “federal,” “foundation,” or “administration.” Check out the site and if there is no phone number or the return address is a PO Box, this…
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…