The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 13, 2024

While it remains shocking that a school whose official mascot is just the color green but big (and whose unofficial mascot is “Keggy the Keg”) has maintained its position as one of the most competitive colleges in the U.S., It’s another facet of your application you can build strategically, improving your chances of admissions.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 28, 2024

For the last few decades, students looking to weasel their way to get accepted into top-tier colleges like Cornell University have stressed themselves silly about demonstrated interest. Should they send handwritten letters to their assignment admissions reps? (No, No, that’s creepy).

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 19, 2024

If you’re a bewildered college applicant, you’re in the right place. For one thing, there’s no data that can tell us in cold, hard numbers how much it impacts admissions decisions, and colleges don’t have a clear definition of what behaviors they interpret as meaningful displays of interest. Demonstrated interest is confusing.

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Admissions Mom

JUNE 22, 2023

Junior year is where your college admissions journey starts for real. If you are new to admissions, no matter where you are in high school, start reading here from the beginning. Be sure to take some time completely off from school and college admissions stuff. Here’s how I suggest you tackle this list.

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

MAY 10, 2021

These schools are often motivated by a focus on their yield, meaning that applicants who are more engaged with a particular college during the application process are more likely to enroll if accepted. This article article from the Atlantic describes the detailed way some colleges track students’ interest.

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Solomon Admissions

MAY 11, 2023

You can start with searches online, but many high schools and some city/county organizations also host college fairs where you meet with college admission reps who can share more information with you about their school. Most schools will be either a reach, target, or likely school. Contact us today !

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The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

Demonstrated interest has been a buzzy topic since the ‘90s, and it’s persisted because college applicants are a hysterical, superhumanly ambitious bunch who will turn no stone unturned to improve their chances of acceptance and schools have very intentionally kept vague about what exactly it is and how much it matters.

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Niche

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Travel activities, high school visits, and college fairs were cited as less influential and weren’t used as often to discover and learn about new colleges. Budgets are tightening as college fight for a shrinking pool of students, so being able to know where to invest time and money more wisely is important.

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Admissions Mom

AUGUST 10, 2023

Hello Admissions Family, Yahoo! Do not use this email address for anything other than college admissions! You will be overwhelmed by emails and it needs to be easy to find info from colleges. Students, I suggest giving your parents access to this email address so they can help you stay on top of info from colleges!

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DC College Counseling

MAY 4, 2023

As we scrolled through Instagram and saw all of the excited smiles and college swag, we couldn’t help but get nostalgic. We started thinking about our own college admissions experiences and the decisions we made! It had a similar admissions landscape, and I knew that I needed to be strategic! Washington University in St.

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the college spy

JANUARY 23, 2020

Visiting a college before you apply can increase your chances of being admitted. Admissions officers prefer to admit students who are likely to attend their college. Admissions officers rightly assume that students who visit a college before applying have a real interest in the school and are more likely to attend if admitted.

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CTK College Coach

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The overwhelming majority of colleges are now test optional, and this includes heavy hitters like Stanford, Ivy League colleges, and the vast majority of state and liberal arts colleges. Fair Test is always your most up-to-date source for learning a school’s test-optional status.

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What are the steps to get you into college? One of the great myths about college admission is that the process is merely a matter of doing your best in high school, getting good scores on some tests, writing a decent essay, and then simply submitting your application to the admissions office. They want to be appreciated.

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BestColleges

APRIL 15, 2024

Roughly 1,000 students — spread across two campuses, in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico — accept this intellectual challenge. "I At college fairs, students aren't as much intrigued as they are confused, Baum noted. The college accepts about 45% of applicants, and the average GPA is 3.79.

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Niche

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Events, fall travel and visit experiences At the time of surveying, 74% of students had visited a college campus. Visits through an admission office were the most common followed by unofficial visits on their own. 35% of students have met with admissions counselors who visited their high school.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

But the real gains that are gonna come from UCA Commitment aren't going to necessarily be in additional new students, because the enrollment cliff is still the enrollment cliff, and we're not changing our admission standards. What it's gonna change is really those retention rates. It's not that they can't do, it's just that they.

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2023

It’s not fair that during what should be one of the most exciting journeys of your lives, you’re forced to add anti-trans state legislation, fear of hate crimes, and hostile rhetoric to your long list of things you should be worried about as a teenager who’s applying to college, like applications, essays, testing, course rigor, and acceptances.

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SSA Online College Prep

APRIL 13, 2022

While all of this may sound intimidating, we are in an era which is more accepting and open than ever before. Colleges are naturally spaces where conversations are being had about topics others may never have considered before, and this openness to learning can be a huge influence on many peoples’ attitudes.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

APRIL 28, 2023

Admissions committees use your secondary essays to augment the story they have assembled about you as a candidate from your Common App essay and your recommendations. In the meantime, please let us know how we can help you crack the the college admissions code. Your guide is on its way.

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Admissions Mom

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

And this piece in Salon.com, written by the mom of a Trans applicant, pretty much explains it all: For my transgender daughter, there are only 18 States of America | Salon.com Like everything college admissions, I encourage you to ask questions and learn as much as possible about admissions, campus safety, and the culture and vibe on campus.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 30, 2023

The media is full of information about the advantages enjoyed by certain students in the college admission process. In recent years, the exponential growth of applications being submitted to well-known colleges and universities (e.g. close to 150,000 students applying for first year admission to UCLA) has fanned this fire.

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Admissions Mom

JUNE 9, 2023

Like everything college admissions, I encourage you to ask questions and learn as much as possible about admissions, campus safety, and the culture and vibe on campus. Many college campuses are overwhelmingly supportive spaces, and you can find places to grow and live the life you want to live.

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