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How to Start Your Own Extracurricular Club

Seeking to get more involved with your high school, you peruse the list of clubs posted on your high school’s website. From there, you attend meetings of various clubs, get seriously involved in one or two, but, as time goes by, you are left with a yearning for something...

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PSAT to SAT Score Conversion Chart: Predict Your SAT Score

Neither PSAT to SAT score conversion nor PSAT-to-SAT predictions are a precise science. However, since the PSAT and SAT are scored on differing scales, it can be helpful to view an approximate PSAT to SAT conversion chart that will assist you in predicting your SAT score based off of...

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How to Get Into Stanford: Data & Admissions Strategies

When you look at a list of the lowest college acceptance rates in the country and your dream school occupies one of the top positions, this is hardly cause for celebration. Stanford University, with its 3.95% acceptance rate is even more selective than MIT, Caltech, and Yale and is...

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Class of 2026 – Ivy League & Elite College Acceptance Rates

Welcome to College Transitions’ review of the 2022 Ivy League acceptance rates and other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2021-22 cycle (Class of 2026). As of this posting in June of 2022, there are still many schools who have yet to report their initial results. As such, you...

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Online/Virtual Volunteer Opportunities for High School Students

For just about every teen on Earth, the last 2+ years have not gone as anticipated. Starting in spring of 2020, your high school experience was impacted by the arrival of COVID. You lost out on after school activities, in-person learning, and proms. And of course, young people “only”...

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Questions to Ask College Admissions Officers

Caught up in the throes of the college search process, most teens are far more worried about what their prospective colleges might ask them in an admissions interview than what they, as a prospective student, should be asking of the school’s representatives. We encourage our clients to flip this...

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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 interest, an increasingly important...

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