How to Get Into Tulane University: Admissions Data and Strategies
Oh, to be alive in 1998… we watched with childlike naiveté as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa launched homerun after homerun assisted by their “totally natural” superhero muscles, the dotcom bubble continued to balloon every…
How to Email an Admissions Officer
Typically, there are two reasons that a prospective college student would want to email a college admissions officer: 1) They have a legitimate question that they are genuinely not able to find the answer to…
How to Get Into Davidson College: Admissions Data & Strategies
Davidson College is a highly-ranked, North Carolina-based liberal arts college. It is one of the very best such institutions in the Southern United States; many comparable highly-selective liberal arts schools are situated in the Northeast…
7 Ways to Address a Bad Grade on Your College Application
“Bad” can be a very relative term, particularly when attached to high school grades. For a high-achieving teen with their eyes on gaining acceptance into a prestigious college, an A- or a B might feel…
How to Answer the COVID-19 Question on the Common App
With COVID-19 having been an omnipresent force in all of our lives, including the entire educational universe, it should come as little surprise that the virus even managed to infiltrate the college application itself last…
How to Get Into UNC-Chapel Hill: Admissions Data & Strategies
It is rare to find a college, even of the public variety, with an annual tuition figure comprised of only four digits. It is even more rare to find a university that provides an elite…
Should I Take AP Computer Science Principles or AP Computer Science A?
The College Board debuted the AP Computer Science Principles course in 2016 and, by 2019, over 100,000 teens were sitting for exam each year. In further evidence of the course’s success, female test-takers increased 136%…
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…
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