鈥淚nnovative and invaluable鈥se this book as your college lifeline.鈥�
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
January 21, 2025
If your goal has always been to become a Terrapin but you don鈥檛 have the grades and test scores to make the cut directly out of high school, don鈥檛...
In a typical year, UMiami accepts between 1,000 and 1,500 transfer applicants. This gives hope to many prospective applicants to a school that now boasts a sub-20% freshman admit...
A sharp rise in selectivity at the University of Florida in the 2020s has made the goal of becoming a Gator more difficult to achieve than ever before. While...
If your dream is to become a Nittany Lion but you don鈥檛 have the grades and test scores to make the cut directly out of high school, don鈥檛 worry鈥攁ll...
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland is among the Ivy-equivalent colleges that now perennially sports a single-digit acceptance rate. This means that very few of the deserving crop of...
Much like the Ivy League colleges, Stanford, and MIT, the University of Chicago rejects many applicants who possess near-perfect (or perfect) test scores, grades, and extracurricular profiles. To further...
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of the most competitive private universities in the country. They reject close to 9 of every 10 applicants who apply to...
UCLA is a school with a single-digit acceptance rate for freshman applicants. However, unlike at other elite universities like Stanford or Harvard, transferring into UCLA is a proposition with...
January 20, 2025
A good internship offers practical, immersive ways for students to understand what is required of a certain career and field. And high school is often an ideal time for...
Commas, semicolons, colons, and em-dashes: what are we supposed to do with all this punctuation? And how could you, a simple student, possibly learn all the rules you need...
For those applying as first-year applicants, Rice University has a single-digit acceptance rate. These high standards leave many aspiring Owls outside of the nest. However, not everyone is ready...
Ranked among the top 30 public universities in the country, Texas A&M draws a competitive applicant pool for coveted spots in their freshman class. This includes almost 8,000 out-of-state...
For entry in the fall of 2023, the middle-50% of successful freshman applicants to the University of Washington had a 3.75-3.98 GPA and a 1410 SAT. If you fell...
By any measure, the University of Notre Dame is an elite and highly selective institution. Incredibly, last year, 88 of every 100 freshman applicants were turned away. In more...
If you were not among the one-in-five freshman applicants to be accepted into the University of Michigan, your dream of becoming a Wolverine is not over. In fact, the...
The University of North Carolina is a dream school for many high-achieving teens from all over the world. While gaining acceptance to UNC Chapel Hill has never been tougher鈥攖he...
For prospective freshman applicants, Dartmouth鈥攍ike all Ivies鈥攕ports an extremely low admit rate year after year. However, on the transfer front, the outcomes are far more variable. In recent years,...
Accepting as many as 450 transfer applicants per year, Emory University is one of the more transfer-friendly elite private institutions in the United States. Most schools with an 17%...
January 18, 2025
The University of Virginia is among the most selective public universities in the country. While they take less than 20% of freshman applicants, UVA remains one of the best...
January 17, 2025
If you鈥檙e raising a college-bound teenager in the Dallas鈥揊ort Worth metroplex, chances are you鈥檝e already discovered what families moving from both coasts quickly learn: There are a lot of...
