by Susan Osborn | Jul 11, 2019 | College Admissions
How to Write Ivy League Application Essays 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...
by Susan Osborn | Jun 23, 2019 | College Admissions
How to Get into the Ivy League 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...
by Susan Osborn | Jun 18, 2019 | College Admissions
How to Create the Perfect College List Given the unprecedented competition for college admission, many students think that they should apply to 20, 25, even 30 colleges to boost their chances of winning admission to college. While that looks like a smart strategy—the...
by Susan Osborn | May 20, 2019 | College Admissions
The SAT Adversity Score: What Students Need to Know The College Board’s new adversity index has been on the minds of everyone during the past few days and I’ve received many calls from concerned parents wondering how this new SAT “score” will affect their children’s...
by Susan Osborn | May 15, 2019 | College Admissions
The Six Worst College Application Essay Topics For most students the most difficult part of the already fraught college application process is coming up with topics for the Common Application essay and the supplemental college application essays. The Common App essay...
by Susan Osborn | May 1, 2019 | College Admissions
The Ideal College Application Timeline for Junior and Seniors Applying to college is a fraught process, and even families who’ve gone through the process before often feel intimidated by the sheer number of things that have to be done, and done on time. Playing...
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