Situated in scenic Addison County, Vermont, Middlebury College is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 liberal arts schools in the United States. While not quite as selective as the likes of Amherst, Swarthmore, or Bowdoin, Middlebury has extremely high standards for prospective applicants and rejects about 90%...
Read MoreFamilies across the Richmond region, from Henrico and Chesterfield to the City of Richmond, know that selective college admission grows more competitive each year. Students at schools like Deep Run, Glen Allen, Midlothian IB, Maggie Walker, and Richmond’s top independent schools often look equally strong on paper. Standing out...
Read MoreOf the eight Ivy League schools, Dartmouth receives the fewest number of applications. There were 28,230 hopefuls for the Class of 2029, around half the number at Columbia or Harvard. Applications also decreased slightly during the 2024-25 cycle, resulting in a slightly friendlier but still uber-competitive 6% acceptance rate...
Read MoreDepending 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 schoolers, those without any prestigious national awards to their names, sometimes feel inadequacy at...
Read MorePepperdine University is a rare institution that is ranked by U.S. News as a top 100 school while also having an acceptance rate of just under 63% last year. This private Christian university, located in gorgeous Malibu, is home to 3,500 undergraduate students. If you’re dreaming of joining them...
Read MoreOh, to be alive in 1998…we watched with childlike naiveté as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa launched home run after home run assisted by their “totally natural” superhero muscles, the dotcom bubble continued to balloon every time a new domain was registered, and Andrew Johnson was still the lone...
Read MoreA permanent fixture on countless “best-of-all-time” lists, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye is a book about a teenager that’s actually for adults. I’m not claiming that you can’t appreciate Catcher as a teenager, but its description of childhood tragedy and mental illness hits different when you’ve got a...
Read MoreYale’s acceptance rate of 4.6% for the Class of 2029 is not the type of number you want to simply glide past as you proceed through the application with blind optimism. It is not our intention to inject unnecessary anxiety and fear into the highly selective admissions process (you...
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