Application Strategy

Picture the famous painting by Edvard Munch known as “The Scream”. No student should have to go through high school feeling like that person. Although there’s serious work to be…

News flash! Not everybody gets to go to Princeton! In fact, very few people get to go to Princeton. Likewise the other Ivies, MIT, Cal Tech, Duke, Chicago, Georgetown, Johns…

By Lee Shulman Bierer, College Admissions Strategies – Founder   Do colleges and universities care how much you want to attend their school? Yes No Sometimes All of the Above…

By Lee Shulman Bierer, College Admissions Strategies – Founder     This is one column I really didn’t want to write.   I had hoped, like the rest of the…

The colleges have made their decisions and now students are in the driver’s seat and by May 1 they must notify the college they choose to attend. All students, even…

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…

Parents: If you had it to do all over again, where would you choose to go to college? Imagine yourself in your child’s position and think about what you loved…

Many years ago when my husband and I moved from our cozy, downtown Boston apartment into our first home with a garden, I remember my mother-in-law telling me that the…

There’s been a lot of chatter about the recent study entitled “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions” released by the Harvard Graduate…

It’s the buzzword you keep hearing. It’s the question you keep asking – “Is this college a good fit?” But what does “fit” really mean? I break the fit concept…