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College Admission News Roundup: February, 2017

Whether your college applications are still months or years away, or whether you’re scrambling to meet a looming application deadline, here are two great articles about college admissions to check out: What the People Who Read Your College…
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5 College Admissions Tips

Starting the college admissions process but not sure where to focus your time? Here are our top five college admissions tips! 1. Show Interest! If you have the grades, test scores, and other qualifications for admission, sometimes the thing…
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How To Get Started On Your College Essay

Perhaps you have already finished the often harrowing process of writing your college application essays. If so, congratulations. If, however, you are facing looming college application deadlines and are still staring at a blank screen, this…
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How To Get Into Harvard

Every student wants to know the magical formula that will get them accepted at Harvard – or Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, or any of several other highly selective colleges. If I could just create a detailed…
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Top 5 College Application Essay Clichés

A survey of our students has revealed that one of the most feared and most difficult parts of the college application process is the college admission essay. This is hardly surprising. After all, the college application essay is unlike any other…
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How NOT to End Up Like Suzy Lee Weiss

Last month, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors received their responses from many of the colleges they applied to. In an era of intense competition at the nation’s best schools, it’s safe to assume that many of those students were…
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Personalizing the Common Application: Future Plans

The Common Application (Common App) is an undergraduate college application which allows students to apply to any of 415 participating schools without having to complete numerous lengthy school applications. However, even with the Common App,…