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…

By Lee Shulman Bierer, College Admissions Strategies, Founder   For young couples in high school heading off to college, it must seem like the world doesn’t believe in love. Everyone,…

College campuses are opening up. For the first time, in a long time, families are actually planning real face-to-face campus visits. People always seem to apologize when they’re making plans…

The college admissions process has occasionally been likened to an old-fashioned mating ritual. It starts out with mutual flirtation: student flirts with college requesting information and perhaps visiting campus; colleges…

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…

I’m sure you’re tired of hearing how “this was an incredibly tough year,” – truth is IT WAS and that means a lot more students were put on wait-lists and…

They’re gone. All summer long you worried about their dorm room, what classes they’d take, how they’d adjust socially, if they will run out of money, if they will be…

The big transition isn’t too far away. Many soon-to-be freshmen have already been on campus for orientation, most have their roommates lined up and beneath the veneer of excited anticipation,…

Unfortunately, gone are the days where parents blithely sent their children off to idyllic college campuses worry-free. Until relatively recently,  safety was something that was just mentioned on campus tours…

They’re gone. All summer long you worried about their dorm room, what classes they’d take, how they’d adjust socially, if they will run out of money, if they will be…