Another Tough Year for College Admissions
It was another tough year for college admissions. Admission rates at competitive colleges were more selective than ever. Stanford and Harvard had record-breaking years of 5-6% acceptance rates. Yale, Princeton, and MIT had acceptance rates of 7-8%; and colleges including UCLA, UC Berkeley, and USC accepted less than one in five students with acceptance rates at 17-18%. What does all this mean for students applying to colleges in today’s highly competitive environment? Here’s what you need to know.
The Ultimate Flaw of College Admissions: More Than Race and Class
There is a price to pay for the coveted college acceptance letter: years of preparation and countless nights dedicated to filling out the extremely long and detailed Common Application. When the letters do come in, most of us have been accepted to at least one school...
Seven steps to paying for college
If you think getting into college was hard, try paying for it. Tuition rates rose again in 2012-13, according to the College Board. The average price tag for attending a public, in-state school is now $22,261 a year. For a four-year private college, it’s $43,289. Few...
What to Do While on a College Wait List
While many high school seniors are relieved to have found out whether they were accepted or rejected, others have had that wait extended. In a year in which Yale’s wait list holds 1,001 students in limbo and Princeton’s has deferred 1,472 students, many applicants are...
How They Really Get In
Most elite colleges and universities describe their admissions policies as "holistic," suggesting that they look at the totality of an applicant -- grades, test scores, essays, recommendations, activities and so forth. But a new survey of admissions officials at the...
The Summer Game Plan
The summer is here and for students what this means is that there are great opportunities to not only enjoy it with family and friends, but there are also plentiful opportunities to further prepare for college. To make your summer engaging, below are seven strategies...
How to Raise an A+ Student
Jeff Haig, educational consultant, and author of Unlock Your Educational Potential, says "the key to educational success is to prepare for a lifetime of success." Cool philosophy, that one: Help your kids do great things in life, and the side effect, as it were, is...
The Waitlist Strategy
Spring is a wonderful time for many students as they get their acceptance letters. Unfortunately, for some students, they are placed on the “waitlist” at their choice college. What this simply means is that they were not competitive enough to be accepted. The good...
Know Your Colleges
Jeff Haig - One of the most important questions colleges ask in their application process is why a student is applying to their college. For example, Stanford’s prompt is, “Tell us what makes Stanford a good place for you.” Boston University’s prompt is, “In five or...
How to Write Winning College Essays
As the college application deadlines are rapidly approaching, it is important that students write winning essays. Students need to use their essays as an opportunity to tell admissions officers much more than their applications can. Here are five strategies to help your essays stand out from the application pool.
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