by Susan Osborn | Aug 19, 2019 | College Admissions
The Common App essay is one of the most important essays your child will ever write. Why? Because the college application essay has a huge role in determining whether or not your child will be admitted to college. In fact, some admissions officers tell me that at...
by Susan Osborn | Aug 13, 2019 | College Admissions
In a press release recently issued by the Office of the President of the University of California, Janet Napolitano noted some interesting facts about who is admitted to the UC system, who isn’t, and why it’s hard for some students to be admitted. If you’re first gen,...
by Susan Osborn | Aug 7, 2019 | College Admissions
Senior year of high school is perhaps the most stressful time of a student’s life. College-bound seniors know that there’s a lot that needs to be done—keeping up grades, retaking standardized tests, writing college application essays and supplemental essays—and not...
by Susan Osborn | Jul 24, 2019 | College Admissions
When advising their children about the college admissions process, parents often encourage them to explore an array of extra-curricular activities so that when they apply to college, they will appear well-rounded. While that strategy worked when parents were applying...
by Susan Osborn | Jul 11, 2019 | College Admissions
While all colleges hope that applicants will demonstrate passion, leadership, initiative, and intelligence in their application essays, the colleges and universities in the Ivy League as well as the Seven Sister schools and other top-tier colleges expect to see...
by Susan Osborn | Jun 23, 2019 | College Admissions
This year, six Ivy League colleges and universities including University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Yale University, Brown University, Harvard, and Dartmouth established record numbers of applicants (over 43,000 in Harvard’s case) and as a result all...
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