鈥淚nnovative and invaluable鈥se this book as your college lifeline.鈥�
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
January 18, 2021
Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1,169,464 international students were studying at colleges and universities across the United States. While this number was already slightly down from...
December 21, 2020
Back in 2012, a student at the University of Cincinnati won a restraining order against her parents for 鈥渟talking鈥� her in college. They had installed spyware on their daughter鈥檚...
December 14, 2020
Even the brightest and most worldly college-bound American teens are not usually able to name more than a handful of universities in the United Kingdom. Sure, there鈥檚 Oxford, Cambridge,...
September 4, 2020
The notion of test-optional admissions was born in 1969, in the coastal town of Brunswick, Maine. There, the newly-minted, fresh-faced Dean of Bowdoin College, Roger Howell Jr., all of...
August 3, 2020
As the higher education community waited with bated breath for the annual Common App launch party on August 1st, rumors flew about what revolutionary changes to the popular application...
June 10, 2020
We previously covered the Early Decision/Early Action acceptance rates for the Class of 2024 at the eight Ivy League universities as well at a number of other selective schools....
April 20, 2020
In an ordinary year, roughly 2% of college-bound high school grads elect to take a gap year prior to launching their postsecondary career. Many spend the time traveling internationally,...
April 17, 2020
As the entire world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, international high school seniors already accepted into an American college must wait to see what unfolds with respect to travel...
April 1, 2020
Recognizing that the coronavirus crisis has caused massive disruptions to the lives of current high school students (along with the rest of the world), many colleges have already come...
March 26, 2020
In the eyes of college admissions officers, there are certain types of activities that occupy the highest points within the extracurricular firmament. Placing in national/international academic competitions, ascending to...
March 23, 2020
For academically-inclined 10th grade students, the abrupt shuttering of their high school due to the coronavirus pandemic was not met with the type of youthful glee that follows a...
March 19, 2020
鈥淲hat should I do now that college tours are canceled?鈥� 鈥淗ow will I demonstrate interest in my prospective colleges?鈥� 鈥淲ill I be able to take the SAT, ACT, and...
March 18, 2020
Depending on where you live, your high school may officially be closed for the next couple of weeks or (perhaps more likely) months. This is surely a tough thing...
March 10, 2020
As of the publication of this blog, there are far more unknowns than knowns regarding coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. What is known is that,...
January 30, 2020
If it ain鈥檛 broke, don鈥檛 fix it. This well-worn idiom captures the mindset of the decision-makers at the Common Application who announced this January that the essay prompts for...
January 21, 2020
Welcome to 国产第一福利影院草草鈥� first look at early round acceptance rates at Ivy League and other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2019-20 cycle. As of this posting in...
March 18, 2019
In the wake of the instantly infamous聽Varsity Blues scandal, our admissions consulting firm, 国产第一福利影院草草, has received a flood of interview requests from media outlets along with countless queries...
January 15, 2019
January 1, 2019
For even the most academically gifted teen, the prospect of getting into an Ivy League or Ivy-caliber college is a tenuous proposition. In 2018, acceptance rates at the eight...
May 17, 2018
The results from the 2017-18 admissions cycle are still rolling in, but the data available thus far sends one very clear message鈥攁cceptance rates at highly-selective colleges are dwindling. Ivy...
