How to Request Letters of Recommendation
Let’s engage in mental exercise intended to do something quite strange—help you imagine your teachers as real human beings. Don’t worry—there’s a purpose to this! Put yourself in your favorite English teacher’s shoes for a moment. Let’s call him Mr. Hemingway. Mr. Hemingway rises at…
College Transitions on WSOC-TV
Charlotte, NC— Dr. Michael Trivette was featured on WSOC-TV in Charlotte for a segment focusing on the increase in federal student loan interest rates for the 2018-19 academic year. In the segment, Michael encourages students and families to be mindful when using student loans to…
Do standardized test scores really matter?
In the last decade, the idea that colleges no longer care that much about standardized test scores has become prevalent in the admissions discourse. Many schools themselves like to brag about how they view test scores as just one of a multitude of factors in…
Colleges With The Best Alumni Networks
Every May, hordes of freshly minted college graduates experience the smack of job search-related anxiety before the Gothic font on their diploma even has a chance to dry. Many proceed to blindly send out an entire redwood’s worth of resumes, obsessively update their LinkedIn profile,…
Should I mention Depression/Anxiety on my College Application?
Sometimes it takes unspeakably tragic events to bring the existence of a widespread problem into the national conversation. In the past decade, highly publicized suicides at UPenn, Hamilton College, MIT, NYU, and Cornell, among others, have moved the discussion of mental health services on campus…
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 online, or 2) they are “playing the game” by demonstrating…
Does being a “legacy” increase your admission odds?
Colleges love to throw around high-minded words like meritocracy, access, and egalitarianism when discussing admissions policies. Yet proclamations of a focus on social justice and opportunity ring a bit hollow when you consider that so-called legacy applicants, those who have familial ties to an institution,…
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 “click-bait” lists of this ilk and, we get it, they’re fun. Unfortunately while…
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