University of Michigan Supplemental Essay Prompts and Tips
In forming the Class of 2025, the University of Michigan received over 80,000 applications, an all-time high. For historical comparison, there were under 24,000 applicants at the turn of the millennium. Therefore, it is safe…
How Many Extracurricular Activities Do Colleges Want?
What is today referred to as Parkinson’s Law began as nothing more than a satirical line penned in the pages of a 1955 issue of The Economist, intended to poke fun at bureaucracies: “Work expands…
NYU Supplemental Essay Prompt and Tips
In the 2020-21 admissions cycle, NYU received over 100,000 applications, a 20% increase over the previous year. That was a record-breaking figure for the university, as was the all-time low acceptance rate of 12.8%. To…
10 Best Boarding Schools in the United States – 2022 Edition
If you are considering spending grades 9-12 at a boarding school, then you are about to make a financial investment every bit as a sizable as the cost of tuition and living expenses at a…
UC Personal Insight Essays: Prompts and Tips
The 2021-22 admissions cycle saw the nine undergraduate University of California campuses collectively attract an all-time record of 250,000+ applications; this represented a 15% increase from two years prior. Logic would suggest that institutions receiving…
How to Get Into UCLA: Admissions Data and Strategies
The historical trajectory of UCLA admissions can best be understood through a once-per-decade peek at the university’s shifting acceptance rates. In 1980, nearly three-quarters of those who applied were accepted, by 1990, this had dropped…
How Many Colleges Should I Apply to?
A great sculptor stares at a giant hunk of stone and can visualize, in their mind’s eye, a finished work of art; the average person just sees a rock. When it comes to the task…
Yale University Supplemental Essay Prompts and Tips
Yale’s acceptance rate of 4.62% for the Class of 2025 is not the type number you want to simply glide past as you proceed through the application with blind optimism. It is not our intention…
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