Should I Declare a Major on My College Application?
The act of formulating a clear and decisive plan is as valorized in the college admissions process as it is in most other realms of American life. Highly-selective colleges do generally give an edge to students who profess to have figured out their whole professional…
Why Do I Get So Much College Mail?
As a teenager, there is something undeniably exciting about being the recipient of an unsolicited brochure from a prestigious university, or even better yet, a seemingly personalized letter from the dean of admissions practically begging you to apply. Every year, millions of high school students…
Do I Need a Resume for My College Applications?
If you are a teenage prodigy who spent your spare time in high school interning at a cancer research laboratory and founding a charitable organization which distributes prescription glasses in Zimbabwe, then being asked to formulate a resume as part of your college application might…
How to Get Into West Point
During the Revolutionary War, George Washington identified a plateau on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 50 miles north of New York City, as the single most important strategic position in all of nascent America. Despite the best treasonous efforts of Benedict Arnold…
College Planning Tips for High School Juniors
The crescendo of voices imploring that “junior year is the most important ten months of your young life” has likely reached deafening levels by the first time you actually set foot in an 11th grade classroom. If past is prologue, junior year is indeed the…
What extracurricular activities will help me get into college?
There is a famous saying in baseball that you can’t win a pennant in April but you sure can lose one. This adage is equally applicable to high school freshman and sophomores with regard to grades (GPA math is more fun when you start strong),…
5 Tips to Jump-Start your College Applications in Summer 2019
For many high school students, summers are a time to hang by the pool, work a summer job, or simply take some time off from coursework and extracurricular demands. Whether your summer plans involve serving tables, lounging at the shore, or participating in a highly-selective…
Is there a gender advantage in college admissions?
Countless mediocre-to-bad “comedic” films feature the storyline of a young man or woman posing as a member of the opposite sex in order to gain some level of competitive advantage. In Ladybugs (mediocre) to Juwanna Mann (bad), young men dress up as women in order to star at a…
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