How to Get Into Harvard: Admissions Data and Strategies
Outside of “Encourage your ultra-wealthy parents to donate a building” or “Be a heavily-recruited athlete who also happens to have an SAT score in the 99th percentile,” there is no meaningful succinct nugget of wisdom…
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…
Colleges to Avoid
Check out our video below to learn more! To those expecting a straightforward bash-list of institutions that we do not think highly of—we apologize for disappointing you. The internet is littered with “clickbait” lists of…
What is an SAT/ACT Superscore?
It is human nature to selectively showcase only our best moments while simultaneously sweeping those that are less flattering out of sight. When serious high school athletes put together highlight reels for recruitment videos, they…
What is the High School Mid-Year Report?
Browse through the extensive canon of films about high school seniors and you’ll mostly encounter plots centered on road trips, parties, prom, romance, and social drama. For understandable reasons, foremost a lack of dramatic tension,…
How to Complete the Honors Section of the Common App
Depending on your circumstances, the five allotted entries in the Honors section of the Common Application can look like anything from a frighteningly vast and boundless ocean to a maddeningly constrictive kiddie pool. “Normal” high…
How to Get Into Georgia Tech: Admissions Data and Strategies
Atlanta, 1990: The MLB’s Braves are busy assembling a young nucleus of talent that will lead them to a record 14-straight division titles. A Southern hip-hop style is taking over the country with artists like…
Should I Apply Early Decision?
In the early 1990s, the University of Pennsylvania was struggling to keep up with their fellow Ivy League universities and found themselves frequently relegated to “back-up plan” status among the nation’s top students. Their institution’s…
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