college acceptances

Happy Holidays and ICC’s 2017 Year End Review

Happy Holidays! First and foremost, we’d like to congratulate our amazing 2018 seniors.  So far there have been exciting early acceptances to schools including Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, WashU, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Duke, Emory, Boston College, GW, Babson, NYU, Tulane, UM, Emerson, Northeastern, Wisconsin, Fordham, Indiana, and several…

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Right and Wrong Ways for College-bound Students to Use Social Media

Last week some students learned a lesson the hard way.   They had their acceptances from Harvard rescinded.   This means students who worked long and hard to get into a top Ivy League school – and were accepted – were disinvited. Why were offers withdrawn? They posted senseless, injudicious comments and memes on social media.   According…

Happy Holidays and a 2016 Year End Review

Happy Holidays and a 2016 Year End Review

Congratulations are in order for so many of our students.   So far there have been exciting early acceptances for our 2017 seniors including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, MIT, Caltech, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Duke, Cornell, Michigan, NYU, Notre Dame, Tulane, UM, FSU, Emory, Washington University, Northeastern, Boston College, Penn State, UT, Babson,…

The Other March Madness: College Acceptances and Rejections

The Other March Madness: College Acceptances and Rejections

March Madness is here. Not throwing into hoops. But an end to jumping through them. As some people are stressing over brackets, others are stressing over acceptance letters/ emails. They are on their way – or will be here soon. Students have done their thing. Now it’s time for parents to do theirs. Parents need…