鈥淚nnovative and invaluable鈥se this book as your college lifeline.鈥�
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
February 6, 2014
In the throes of the admissions frenzy, it is hard to be face-to-face with a college representative and ask anything other than a thinly veiled version of 鈥淎re you...
January 31, 2014
I got a letter from the Dean! I鈥檓 in! For a high school student, there is something undeniably exciting about being the recipient of an unsolicited brochure from a...
December 31, 2013
With FAFSA season fast approaching, you no longer have the luxury of long-term financial planning for college unless you happen to stumble upon聽a 1985 Delorean聽fully-loaded with a flux capacitor...
December 26, 2013
Deferred. 聽It鈥檚 a word that every early applicant dreads. Neither accepted nor denied, deferred students often feel as if they have been banished to college admissions purgatory, sentenced to...
December 20, 2013
The lure of an elite undergraduate institution is undoubtedly very powerful.聽 And if you have the credentials and money to comfortably matriculate, by all means鈥� However, if finances are...
December 2, 2013
If your high school career has been an uninterrupted parade of top notch grades, near perfect standardized test scores, and saintly behavior then you can stop reading鈥� Except you...
November 5, 2013
The vast majority of college admissions officers rarely, if ever, Google applicants names, rifle through their Facebook accounts, carefully pore over their archived tweets, or analyze their 鈥渟elfies鈥� on...
October 30, 2013
It is common knowledge that private colleges and universities are typically eager to recruit out-of-state applicants in order to help enhance the geographic diversity of their freshman classes. However,...
September 24, 2013
The basic rules for writing a stellar college essay vary little from the general guidelines for producing any strong piece of written work: be authentic, tell a story that...
September 18, 2013
Last week, U.S. News & World Report released its highly anticipated, and highly controversial, annual college rankings. Like most people, we love ratings systems and refer to them when...
September 10, 2013
As colleges move to data-driven means of tracking information on prospective students, they have become increasingly savvy about predicting enrollment behavior and gauging an applicant鈥檚 true level of interest.聽聽Schools...
August 2, 2013
Early Decision (ED) is one of the most debated strategies in college admissions. For some students, it’s a powerful tool for locking in an acceptance at a dream school....
July 26, 2013
鈥淚t鈥檚 not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.鈥� This age-old maxim applies not just to sports, but to high school and to college admissions...
July 7, 2013
When most high school students and college students think about their summer break,聽most usually don鈥檛 think about taking summer courses. 聽Increasingly, colleges have realized this as well and many...
July 2, 2013
Mark is a highly accomplished senior with excellent grades and stratospheric test scores.聽 He recalls a friend of similar class rank who was admitted into Princeton just last year,...
Andrew recently contributed to a report that is making news today, and warns against the potentially negative impact of federal financial aid reform. 聽Check it out.
June 20, 2013
Most college-bound students are aware of the importance of having a 鈥渟afety school,鈥� an institution where obtaining admission is pretty darn close to a statistical guarantee. However, for anyone...
June 18, 2013
Since 2011, major news and media outlets have devoted substantial attention to the rise of Massive Online Open Courses, better known as 鈥淢OOCs.鈥� Journalists and educators alike have lauded聽startups...
June 15, 2013
For those who still think of acceptance into an Ivy League School as a sole guarantor of future success, a classic article worth reading. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/06/business/the-humbling-of-the-harvard-man.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Takeaway: Grit* and tenacity...
May 23, 2013
Despite belief (and perhaps wishes) to the contrary, summer plays an extremely important role in the college admissions process.聽 These next few months give rising seniors, many of whom...
