How to Transfer Colleges
Calculating your chances of getting into an elite college as a transfer is as easy as handicapping a cat race. Unlike the regular admissions process, there is enough fluctuation in admission-related variables from year-to-year to…
How to Get Off the College Waitlist
After battling through the epic journey of the college application process, with all its emotional twists and turns, the torturous anticipation, the potential heaven of acceptance or hell of rejection, judgment day has finally arrived….
How to Request Letters of Recommendation for College
Yes, this blog is about how to request letters of recommendation for college. But first, let’s engage in a mental exercise intended to do something quite strange—help you imagine your teachers as real human beings….
Why Do Colleges Send Me Mail?
Why do colleges send me mail? We get this question often, and we can understand why. As a teenager, there is something undeniably exciting about being the recipient of an unsolicited brochure from a prestigious…
How to Get Into Michigan State (MSU) – Acceptance Rate & Admission Strategies
With over 38,000 total undergraduates, Michigan State University caters to more BA/BS-pursuing students than its in-state rival, the University of Michigan. The Michigan State acceptance rate is 83%, four times that of UMich. This gives…
Should I Use the Common App Additional Information Section?
The Common App Additional Information section appears to be a 650-word oasis amidst a desert of Draconian character limits. Yet, this inviting expanse of brag-sheet real estate should not be mistaken for an invitation to…
Should I Apply Test-Optional to College in 2022-23?
Prior to the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, rarely did a single month pass without another well-known college or university making headlines by announcing that it would no longer require applicants to submit…
How to Get Into the University of Alabama – Acceptance Rate & Strategies
The United States is filled with excellent schools that are extremely hard to get into. There are also a solid number of excellent schools that accept the vast majority of applicants. The University of Alabama…
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