Application Strategy

Within a week, all admissions decisions will be complete, notifications made and we’ll all be watching the fabulous tear-jerking videos of deserving students finding out they’ve been accepted into their…

Typically what I’m saying to families at this time of the year is “load up your mini-vans and head for the airports and highways for the annual spring break campus…

On March 17th Netflix released  Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, a documentary about the bribery scandal from 2019. It’s a powerful film that shows the ugly underbelly of what…

The saying goes … “It is easier to make a big school smaller than it is to make a small school bigger.” Shortly after the decisions roll in, high school…

The Common Application offers students seven different essay prompts from which they need to choose just one, and write an essay of 250-650 words. Six of the seven are the…

If you applied Early Decision or Early Action you may have received notification that you’ve been deferred. It’s the purgatory of the college admissions process. You definitely weren’t accepted and…

Notifications for Early Decision (ED 1), Early Action (EA) and Restricted Early Action (REA) have been delivered. This year, as in previous years, there were many more tears than fist-bumps.…

I know we’re all tired of constantly being reminded just how different 2020 has been, but think about just HOW different it has been for college freshmen. They visited colleges,…

“Stealth applicants” is the term colleges and universities use to refer to those students whose first communication with a school comes via their admissions application. Essentially, these students haven’t shown…

November 1, an important college application deadline, is almost upon us and the stress in many homes with high school seniors is almost palpable. Here are some tips to make…