The college essay: the longest, hardest, and most feared factor of the application process. You’re a smart, well-traveled, interesting high school student, so this should be easy, right? The only...
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Updated June 2024 Parents are so inundated with information regarding the SAT that they often have trouble knowing fact from fiction and truth from hyperbole. For years, I’ve dealt with...
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At the risk of sounding like Matthew Lesko, the question mark suit-clad lunatic of early 2000s infomercial fame, COLLEGES WANT TO GIVE YOU FREE MONEY!!! Okay, so schools aren’t exactly...
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Most students are familiar with the basics of Advanced Placement (AP) courses: They offer a chance to experience a college-level curriculum while still in high school, earn college credits, and...
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Prior to the 1920s, attendance at a top-flight prep school was nothing less than a prerequisite for admission into an Ivy League college. Absurdly, a diploma from a blue-blood boarding...
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Years ago, when parents told their teens that a letter had arrived from the college admissions office, the immediate question would be “thick or thin”? A thick envelope meant “acceptance”...
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