The day has finally come. You’ve been accepted to college! Congratulations! While this is certainly cause for celebration, there is still plenty to do… Here are some things to keep in mind now that you have received your acceptance: Review all your options. Unless you applied Early Decision, wait until you hear from all the…
Without a doubt, some of you have already seen the recent news about colleges extending their SAT and ACT test-optional policy for 2022, and heard about the changes to the SAT. A lot of you are cheering the changes! The backstory In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult or impossible for many students…
This morning the College Board made two big announcements in the world of college admissions: for students in the U.S., both the SAT Subject Tests and the SAT essay writing section will be discontinued. At International College Counselors, we’ve been hearing rumors for a while, and today College Board made it official. There were 20…
Happy Holidays! First and foremost, we’d like to congratulate our amazing 2021 seniors. So far there have been exciting early acceptances to schools including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Yale, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, Duke, Emory, George Washington, Babson, NYU, Tufts, Tulane, UM, Northeastern, Syracuse, Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, and several others….
In less than two weeks, college application season officially begins. On August 1 the Common Application for students applying for fall 2021 goes live! Seniors will be able to apply to the more than 800 universities and colleges in the U.S. and abroad that rely on the Common App as their primary application. Has your student started…