Category: Blog Posts
Early Decision, Early Action, Restrictive Early Action, Rolling Admission, and so on, and so on…
I don't usually reference other college consultants, but Michelle Hernandez has a really nice chart that provides a digest of different admissions policies. Keep in mind that this list of schools isn't exhaustive, and other decision plans might exist. Brown University, until rather recently, offered a rather unusual Early plan…
Recommend Me!
We’re several months ahead of even the most pressing college application deadlines, but most seniors have been confronted with an issue that demands immediate attention: Requesting letters of recommendation, or LoRs. Clearly, this needs to be done immediately (most teachers will need not just the request itself, but also a…
The Application Process: What Decision Program to Pick? – Part II
In our last post, we discussed two application plans: Regular Decision (RD) and Early Decision (ED). Here, we’ll discuss the remaining application plans: Rolling Admissions (RA), Early Action (EA), and Early Decision II (EDII). Not all schools offer these plans, but you can take advantage of those that do. First,…
The Application Process: What Decision Program to Pick?
August is almost here, and the attention of most students has turned from summer EAs to the process of actually building the college application. “How should I structure the essay?” most kids are asking at this time, accompanied by, “Who should be writing my letters of recommendation?” I usually say…
Rethinking the College Selection Process…A New (and necessary!) Approach…Part III
So, this will be the last post in our series about schools selection. To revisit things, we first spoke of the need to focus on a school’s specialty rather than its prestige. Want to go into business? Purdue and Indiana are some of the best colleges in the country. Similarly,…
Rethinking the College Selection Process…A New (and necessary!) Approach…Part II
Last week, we discussed the way most families attack the college selection process: perusing the U.S. News rankings. We provided an alternate option: investigating the strength of individual fields of study. For the focused student, not only will this lead to a richer academic experience, but it also opens up…
Rethinking the College Selection Process…A New (and necessary!) Approach
For the past two decades, it has been an understood fact that admission to colleges would get progressively more difficult through the early 2010s. This view went along rather uninterrupted up until 2008…and then the economy fell apart. The last several years have dramatically changed everything related to college admissions…