How to Get Into Boston College: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
From 1980 to 1990, Boston College accepted as few as 31% of applicants and as many as 45% of prospective Eagles. Between 1994 and 2003, the average SAT score jumped roughly 100 points with the…
How to Get Into Johns Hopkins: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Like many other elite private colleges, Johns Hopkins University has fared quite well in higher education’s selectivity arms race since the start of the present millennium. As the Baltimore Sun reported back in 1996, the…
Best Summer Art Programs – 2023
Pop quiz: What are the visual arts? (If you said this in a Keanu Reeves voice a la Speed, you win.) In addition to painting, drawing, and sculpture–three of the most time-honored mediums–other creation and…
How to Get Into Boston University: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
There is so much to like about Boston University that it’s not hard to figure out why it received almost 81,000 applications for a spot in the 2023-24 freshman class. This school has experienced such…
How to Get Into UPenn– Acceptance Rate & Strategies
The University of Pennsylvania was founded in the 18th Century as a member of the Ivy League; yet, it took roughly 250 years for it to become the uber-elite, highly-selective institution that it is today….
50 Meaningful Gifts for College Students in 2023
You know that you want to give a gift to a college student in your life. You know you want to give that gift soon. And you know which wrapping paper you’ll use. But you…
How to Get Into Cornell: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Successful applicants to Cornell University universally possess an ‘A’ average in a rigorous high school curriculum, stellar SAT/ACT scores (with some pandemic-driven exceptions), as well as a record of accomplishment outside of the classroom in…
How to Get Into Princeton: Acceptance Rate & Strategies
Tom Cruise’s iconic Princeton University interview in the ’80s classic Risky Business leads his character, Joel Goodson, to receive an against-all-odds letter of acceptance. Back in 1983 when the film debuted, the Princeton University acceptance…
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